Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 443

Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63 .

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Europae arboribus." Restricted by Thomas (1911«: 148) to Uppsala, Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: Forested regions of Palearctic, from Iberia and Great Britain east to Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Isl ( Russia); south to Mediterranean and Black Seas, N Mongolia, Korea, and NE China.

SYNONYMS: albonotatus Billberg, 1827; albus Billberg, 1827; alpinus Desmarest, 1822 ; altaicus Serebrennikov, 1928; ameliae Cabrera, 1924; anadyrensis Ognev, 1929; arcticus Trouessart, 1906; argenteus Kerr, 1792; baeticus Cabrera, 1905; balcanicus Heinrich, 1936; bashkiricus Ognev, 1935; brunnea Altum, 1876; chiliensis Sowerby, 1921; cinerea Hermann, 1804; coreae Sowerby, 1921; coreanus Kishida, 1924; croaticus Wettstein, 1927; dulkeiti Ognev, 1929; europaeus Gray, 1843; exalbidus Pallas, 1778; fedjushini Ognev, 1935; formosovi Ognev, 1935; fuscoater Altum, 1876; fusconigricans Dwigubski, 1804; fuscorubens Dwigubski, 1804; golzmajeri Smirnov, 1960; gotthardi Fatio, 1905; graeca Altum, 1876; hoffmanni Valverde, 1968; infuscatus Cabrera, 1905; istrandjae Heinrich, 1936; italicus Bonaparte, 1838; jacutensis Ognev, 1929; jenissejensis Ognev, 1935; kalbinensis Selevin, 1924; kessleri Migulin, 1928; leucourus Kerr, 1792; lilaeus Miller, 1907; mantchuricus Thomas, 1909; martensi Matschie, 1901; meridionalis Lucifero, 1907; nadymensis Serebrennikov, 1928; niger Billberg, 1827 ; nigrescens Altum, 1876; numantius Miller, 1907; ognevi Migulin, 1928; orientis Thomas, 1906; rhodopensis Heinrich, 1936; rufus Kerr, 1792 ; rupestris Thomas, 1907; russus Miller, 1907; rutilons Miller, 1907; segurae Miller, 1909; silanus Hecht, 1931; subalpinus Burg, 1920; talahutky Brass, 1911; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1899; ukrainicus Migulin, 1928; uralensis Ognev, 1935; varius Gmelin, 1789.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sciurus . For discussion of taxonomy, see Sidorowicz (1971) and Corbet (1978c).