Tamias merriami J. A. Allen, 1889 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 2:176.

TYPE LOCALITY: "San Bernardino Mts" [N of San Bernardino, 4,500 feet (1,372 m), San Bernardino Co., California, USA] .

DISTRIBUTION: San Francisco Bay southward in the Coast Range, and south of Columbia (California, USA) in the Sierra Nevada, to extreme N Baja California (Mexico).

SYNONYMS: kernensis (Grinnell and Storer, 1916); mariposae (Grinnell and Storer, 1916); pricei J. Allen, 1895.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotamias . Formerly included meridionalis and obscurus; see Callahan (1977). See also comment under obscurus .