Sciurus anomalus Giildenstaedt,1785 . In Schreber, Die Säugeth., 4:781.

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 .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Transcaucasia (Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Georgia), N and W Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel.

SYNONYMS: caucasicus Pallas, 1811; fulvus Blanford, 1875; historicus Gray, 1867; pallescens (Gray, 1867); persicus Erxleben, 1777 (may be based on Glis glis); russatus Wagner, 1842; syriacus Ehrenberg, 1828.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Tenes (Corbet, 1978c:76) . Russian authors ascribe this species to Gmelin, 1778. Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:148