Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben 1777)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 765

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben 1777)

[Sciurus] hudsonicus Erxleben 1777 , Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 416.

Type Locality: "ad fretum Hudsonis" Restricted by A. H. Howell (1936:134) to the mouth of Severn River, Hudson Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Vernacular Names: Red Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. hudsonicus Erxleben 1777

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. abieticola A. H. Howell 1929

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. baileyi J. A. Allen 1898

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. dakotensis J. A. Allen 1894

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. dixiensis Hardy 1942

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. fremonti Audubon and Bachman 1853

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. grahamensis J. A. Allen 1894

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. gymnicus Bangs 1899

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. kenaiensis A. H. Howell 1936

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. lanuginosus Bachman 1839

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. laurentianus Anderson 1942

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. loquax Bangs 1896

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. lychnuchus Stone and Rehn 1903

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. minnesota J. A. Allen 1899

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. mogollonensis Mearns 1890

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. pallescens A. H. Howell 1942

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. petulans Osgood 1900

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. picatus Swarth 1921

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. preblei A. H. Howell 1936

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. regalis A. H. Howell 1936

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. richardsoni Bachman 1839

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. streatori J. A. Allen 1898

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. ungavensis Anderson 1942

Subspecies Tamiasciurus hudsonicus subsp. ventorum J. A. Allen 1898

Distribution: Alaska ( USA), throughout Canada (south of tundra); including Vancouver Isl, W USA in mountain states; NE USA, south to NW South Carolina.

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered as T. h. grahamensis; IUCN – Critically Endangered as T. h. grahamensis; otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes fremonti; see Hardy (1950). See also douglasii . Reviewed by Steele (1998, Mammalian Species No. 586). Arbogast et al. (2001) found that mitochondrial DNA differed only slightly among the three species of Tamiasciurus .