Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus J. A. Allen 1890

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 813

Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus J. A. Allen 1890

Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus J. A. Allen 1890 , Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 90.

Type Locality: "Fort Klamath, [Klamath Co.,] Oregon." [ USA].

Vernacular Names: Yellow-pine Chipmunk.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. amoenus J. A. Allen 1890

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. affinis J. A. Allen 1890

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. albiventris Booth 1947

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. canicaudus Merriam 1903

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. caurinus Merriam 1898

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. celeris Hall and Johnson 1940

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. cratericus Blossom 1937

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. felix Rhoads 1895

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. ludibundus Hollister 1911

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. luteiventris J. A. Allen 1890

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. monoensis Grinnell and Storer 1916

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. ochraceus A. H. Howell 1925

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. septentrionalis Cowan 1946

Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus subsp. vallicola A. H. Howell 1922

Distribution: C British Columbia ( Canada) south to C California east to C Montana and W Wyoming ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Neotamias . Reviewed by Sutton (1992, Mammalian Species No. 390). DNA variation and introgressive hybridization between T. amoenus and T. ruficaudus reported by Good et al. (2003) and Demboski and Sullivan (2003).