Tamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839)

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 : 456

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scientific name	Tamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839)
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Tamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:99 [1839].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Shores of Columbia River" Restricted by Allen (1898:284) to mouth of Columbia River, [Clatsop Co., Oregon, USA].

DISTRIBUTION: Coast and Cascade ranges and Sierra Nevada of SW British Columbia (not Vancouver Isl) ( Canada) to S California ( USA).

SYNONYMS: belcheri ( Gray, 1842); cascadensis (J. Allen, 1898); mollipilosus (Audubon and Bachman, 1841); orarius (Bangs, 1897); suckleyi (Baird, 1855).

COMMENTS: Formerly included mearnsi ; see Lindsay (1981). Hall (1981:466) suggested that douglasii might be conspecific with hudsonicus , but Lindsay (1982) showed that apparent hybrids were probably due to character convergence.

References

Allen, J. A. 1898. Revision of the chickarees, or North American red squirrels (subgenus Tamiasciurus). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 10: 249 - 298.

Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Lindsay, S. L. 1981. Taxonomic and biogeographic relationships of Baja California chickarees (Tamiasciurus). Journal of Mammalogy, 62: 673 - 682.

Lindsay, S. L. 1982. Systematic relationship of parapatric tree squirrel species (Tamiasciurus) in the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 60: 2149 - 2156.