Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus Gmelin 1778

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 : 759

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scientific name	Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus Gmelin 1778
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Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus Gmelin 1778 , Syst. Nat., 13th ed., Vol. 1: 148.

Type Locality: "without exact indication of locality" ( Ognev, 1966:368). Restricted by Güldenstadt (1785, see Ognev, 1940:423) to Sabeka, 25 km SW of Kutais, Georgia.

Vernacular Names: Caucasian Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus subsp. anomalus Gmelin 1778

Subspecies Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus subsp. pallescens Gray 1867

Subspecies Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus subsp. syriacus Ehrenberg 1828

Distribution: Turkey, Transcaucasia ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), N and W Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. Newly reported from Lesbos Isl, Greece ( Hecht-Markou, 1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Tenes ( Corbet, 1978 c:76) . Reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991).