The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogasterKelson, Keith R.
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The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster
Kelson, Keith R.
Squirrels
The names, absolute synonyms, and geographic ranges of the two
subspecies of _Sciurus aureogaster_ here recognized are as follows:
SCIURUS AUREOGASTER AUREOGASTER F. Cuvier
1829. _Sciurus aureogaster_ F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes,
VI, livr. LIX, pl. with text.
1830. _Sciurus rafiventer_ Lichenstein, Abhandl. K. Akad.
Wiss., Berlin, p. 116 (1827).
1831. _Sciurus leucogaster_ F. Cuvier, Suppl. d'Hist. Nat.
Buffon, pp. 300, 301.
1831. _Sciurus hypopyrrhus_ Wagler, Oken's Isis, pp. 510,
511.
1841. _Sciurus mustelinus_ Audubon and Bachman, Proc. Acad.
Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, pp. 100, 101.
1841. _Sciurus ferruginiventris_ Audubon and Bachman, Proc.
Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 101.
1845. _Sciurus ferrugineiventris_ Schinz, Synopsis Mamm., II,
p. 14.
1855. _Sciurus hypoxanthus_ (Lichenstein MS) Geoffroy, Voyage
de la Venus, Zool. (text), pp. 158, 159 (on labels of
squirrels from Berlin Museum, _fide_ Nelson, Proc. Washington
Acad. Sci., 1:38, May 9, 1899).
1855. _Sciurus chrysogaster_ Giebel, Saugethiere, p. 650.
1867. _Macroxus aureogaster_ Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,
ser. 3, 20:423.
1867. _Sciurus hypopyrrhous_ Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist,
ser. 3, 20:424.
1867. _Macroxus morio_ Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
3, 20:424.
1867. _Macroxus maurus_ Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
3, 20:425.
1887. _Sciurus rufiventris?_ Rovirosa, La Naturaleza, 7:360
(1885-1886).
1897. _Sciurus leucops_ Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
9:198.
1899. _Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus_ Nelson, Proc.
Washington Acad. Sci., 1:42, May 9.
_Range._--Eastern slope of Mexico from southern Tamaulipas
southward to Tabasco and Chiapas. Marginal localities
arranged clockwise beginning with the northernmost station of
record are: _Tamaulipas_: Victoria; Altamira; down the coast
to _Veracruz_: Coatzocoalcos; inland to _Tabasco_:
Montecristo. _Chiapas_: Tumbala. _Oaxaca_: Mountains near
Santo Domingo. _Veracruz_: Otatitlan; Orizaba; Jico; Jalapa.
_Puebla_: Metlaltoyuca. _Hidalgo_: Sierra Encarnacion.
_Queretaro_: Pinal de Amoles. _San Luis Potosi_: Valles.
_Tamaulipas_: Forlon. Specimen No. 51383 Chicago Mus. Nat.
Hist., labelled as from San Luis Potosi, in the State of the
same name, does not represent, I suspect, a natural
occurrence of the animal. Possibly the specimen was purchased
there in the market, but was actually captured elsewhere.
SCIURUS AUREOGASTER FRUMENTOR Nelson
1898. _Sciurus aureogaster frumentor_ Nelson, Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington, 12:154, June 3.
_Range._--Higher elevations of the Cofre de Perote. Marginal
localities, both in Veracruz, are: Above Las Vigas; Jico.
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