Spermophilus adocetus Merriam 1903

Spermophilus adocetus Merriam 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 16: 79.

Type Locality: "La Salada, 40 miles [64 km] south of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico." .

Vernacular Names: Tropical Ground Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Spermophilus adocetus subsp. adocetus Merriam 1903

Subspecies Spermophilus adocetus subsp. infernatus Alvarez and Ramírez-P. 1968

Distribution: E Jalisco, Michoacan, and N Guerrero (WC Mexico).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Notocitellus (A. H. Howell, 1938) or Otospermophilus (Hall, 1981:399); but see also Birney and Genoways (1973) who suggested it is closer to subgenus Ictidomys . Molecular sequence data indicate that adocetus and annulatus are sister species (Harrison et al., 2003), and basal to all other spermophiline ground squirrels, except Ammospermophilus . Reviewed by Best (1995 g, Mammalian Species No. 504).