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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.6.711

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scientific name

Sciurus sp.
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Sciurus

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