Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti Woodhouse 1852

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 : 758

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scientific name	Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti Woodhouse 1852
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Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti Woodhouse 1852 View in CoL

Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti Woodhouse 1852 View in CoL , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1852 (6): 110.

Type Locality: "...in the San Francisco Mountains, New Mexico " [= Coconino Co., Arizona, USA].

Vernacular Names: Abert's Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. aberti Woodhouse 1852

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. barberi J. A. Allen 1904

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. chuscensis Goldman 1931

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. durangi Thomas 1893

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. ferreus True 1900

Subspecies Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti subsp. kaibabensis Merriam 1904

Distribution: SE Utah, S and W Colorado, extreme SE Wyoming, W and C New Mexico, and Arizona ( USA); Chihuahua, Durango, and Sonora ( NW Mexico).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Otosciurus ( Hall, 1981:434) . Reviewed by Nash and Seaman (1977, Mammalian Species, 80) and by Hoffmeister and Diersing, (1978), whose subspecies allocations are followed here. Post-Pleistocene dispersal analyzed by Davis and Brown (1989). Phylogeography was studied by Lamb et al. (1997), who found two major assemblages.