Sciurus variegatoides Ogilby, 1839

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

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scientific name	Sciurus variegatoides Ogilby, 1839
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Sciurus variegatoides Ogilby, 1839 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:117.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ... west coast of South America." Restricted by Nelson (1899b:80) to "(El) Salvador."

DISTRIBUTION: S Chiapas ( Mexico), through Central America to Panama.

SYNONYMS: adolphei Lesson, 1842; annalium Thomas, 1905; atrirufus Harris, 1930; austini Harris, 1933; bangsi Dickey, 1928; belli Nelson, 1899; boothiae Gray, 1843; dorsalis Gray, 1849 ; fuscovariegatus Schinz, 1845; goldmani Nelson, 1898; griseocaudatus Gray, 1843; helveolus Goldman, 1912; intermedius Gray, 1867; loweryi McPherson, 1972; managuensis Nelson, 1898; melania (Gray, 1867); nicoyana Gray, 1867; pyladei Lesson, 1842; richardsoni Gray, 1842; rigidus Peters, 1863; thomasi Nelson, 1899 ; underwoodi Goldman, 1932.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sciurus ; includes goldmani ( Hall, 1981:424). Revised by Harris (1937).

References

Goldman, E. A. 1932. Review of woodrats of Neotoma lepida group. Journal of Mammalogy, 13: 59 - 67.

Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.

Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.

Gray, J. E. 1849 [1850]. Vertebrata, in The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., during the years 1843 - 1846 (A. Adams, ed.). Reeve and Benham, London, 250 pp.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Harris, W. P., Jr. 1937. Revision of Sciurus variegatoides, a species of Central American squirrel. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 38: 1 - 39.

Nelson, E. W. 1898. What is Sciurus variegatus Erxleben? Science, n. s., 8: 897 - 898.

Nelson, E. W. 1899 b. Revision of the squirrels of Mexico and Central America. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1: 15 - 106.