The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster

by Keith R. Kelson

Fig. 1. Geographic distribution of Sciurus aureogaster.
1. Sciurus aureogaster aureogaster. 2. Sciurus aureogaster frumentor.

The names, absolute synonyms, and geographic ranges of the two subspecies of Sciurus aureogaster here recognized are as follows:

Sciurus aureogaster aureogaster F. Cuvier

1829. Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, VI, livr. LIX, pl. with text.

1830. Sciurus rafiventer Lichenstein, Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, p. 116 (1827).

1831. Sciurus leucogaster F. Cuvier, Suppl. d'Hist. Nat. Buffon, pp. 300, 301.

1831. Sciurus hypopyrrhus Wagler, Oken's Isis, pp. 510, 511.

1841. Sciurus mustelinus Audubon and Bachman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, pp. 100, 101.

1841. Sciurus ferruginiventris Audubon and Bachman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 101.

1845. Sciurus ferrugineiventris Schinz, Synopsis Mamm., II, p. 14.