Spermophilus mexicanus (Erxleben, 1777)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 447

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scientific name	Spermophilus mexicanus (Erxleben, 1777)
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Spermophilus mexicanus (Erxleben, 1777) View in CoL . Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:428.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in nova Hispania?" Restricted by Mearns (1896:443) to "Toluca, [ Mexico,] Mexico."

DISTRIBUTION: S New Mexico and W Texas ( USA) to Jalisco and S Puebla (C Mexico).

SYNONYMS: parvidens Mearns, 1896 .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Ictidomys ( Hall, 1981:394) . Known to hybridize at several localities with tridecemlineatus ( Cothran and Honeycutt, 1984; Cothran et al., 1977). Reviewed by Young and Jones (1982, Mammalian Species, 164).