Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

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Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 63 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "in Europae arboribus." Restricted by Thomas (1911 a:148) to Uppsala, Sweden .

Vernacular Names: Eurasian Red Squirrel.

Synonyms: Sciurus (Sciurus) fuscorubens Dwigubski 1804 ; Sciurus (Sciurus) nadymensis Serebrennikov 1928 ; Sciurus (Sciurus) subalpinus Burg 1920 ; Sciurus (Sciurus) talahutky Brass 1911 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. alpinus Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. altaicus Serebrennikov 1928

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. anadyrensis Ognev 1929

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. arcticus Trouessart 1906

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. balcanicus Heinrich 1936

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. chiliensis Sowerby 1921

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. cinerea Hermann 1804

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. dulkeiti Ognev 1929

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. exalbidus Pallas 1778

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. fedjushini Ognev 1935

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. formosovi Ognev 1935

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. fuscoater Altum 1876

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. fusconigricans Dwigubski 1804

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. leucourus Kerr 1792

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. lilaeus Miller 1907

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. mantchuricus Thomas 1909

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. martensi Matschie 1901

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. ognevi Migulin 1928

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. orientis Thomas 1906

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. rupestris Thomas 1907

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. ukrainicus Migulin 1928

Subspecies Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris subsp. varius Gmelin 1789

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, W and NE China.

Conservation: IUCN – Near Threatened.

Discussion: Subgenus Sciurus . For discussion of taxonomy, see Sidorowicz (1971), Corbet (1978 c), Wiltafsky (1978), and Gromov and Erbaeva (1995). Oshida et al. (1993) and Oshida and Yoshida (1997) described chromosomes of S. v. orientis .