Sciurus sp.

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 717-718

Sciurus sp.

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 10.

Our records could be Sciurus aureogaster Cuvier, 1829 , S. deppei Peters, 1863 , or S. yucatanensis Allen,

1877, all species potentially in the study area. Although morphological characteristics allow for the distinction between these 3 species. ( S. aureogaster is slightly larger than S. yucatanensis and these 2 species are larger than S. depeii ; Reid 2009, Koprowski et al. 2017), this distinction is difficult to observe in camera-trap photographs. The fur color of S. aureogaster , varying from completely black to combinations of black with reddish brown or gray, may produce confusion with the other 2 species in camera-trap photographs ( Reid 2009, Koprowski et al. 2017). Therefore, to avoid misidentification we decided to report our records only as Sciurus sp.