Tamiops swinhoei (Milne-Edwards 1874)

[Tamiops] swinhoei (Milne-Edwards 1874), Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammiferes: 308.

Type Locality: "Moupin [Muping]," [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China]. Restricted by G. M. Allen (1940:673) to "Hongchantin...about 6000 feet [1829 m]." .

Vernacular Names: Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tamiops swinhoei subsp. swinhoei Milne-Edwards 1874

Subspecies Tamiops swinhoei subsp. olivaceus Osgood 1932

Subspecies Tamiops swinhoei subsp. spencei Thomas 1921

Subspecies Tamiops swinhoei subsp. vestitus Miller 1915

Distribution: Extreme SW Gansu south through Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan (China) to N Burma and N Vietnam; isolated population in Hebei (China).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: The form forresti was originally named as a subspecies of T. maritimus, but assigned to swinhoei by Moore and Tate (1965:248).