Spermophilus elegans Kennicott, 1863

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 : 446

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Spermophilus elegans Kennicott, 1863 View in CoL . Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 158.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Fort Bridger," [Uinta Co., Wyoming, USA].

DISTRIBUTION: NE Nevada, SE Oregon, S Idaho, and SW Montana to C Colorado and W Nebraska ( USA).

SYNONYMS: aureus ( Davis, 1939); nevadensis (A. Howell, 1928).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Hall, 1981:385) . Regarded by Howell (1938) and Hall (1981:385) as a subspecies of richardsonii ; but Nadler et al. (1971a), Robinson and Hoffmann (1975), Koeppl et al. (1978) and Fagerstone (1982) provided evidence of specific distinctness and included aureus and nevadensis in elegans . Reviewed by Zegers (1984, Mammalian Species, 214).