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Merriam's Chipmunk
Tamias merriami J.A.Allen, 1889
First described in: Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol.2 p.176
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) merriami subsp. merriami J. A. Allen 1889 Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) merriami subsp. kernensis Grinnell and Storer 1916 Subspecies Tamias (Neotamias) merriami subsp. pricei J. A. Allen 1895
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Neotamias. Formerly included meridionalis and obscurus; see Callahan (1977). See also comment under obscurus. Reviewed by Best and Granai (1994 a, Mammalian Species No. 476), and Larson (1981 - 1987).
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
distribution
Distribution: San Francisco Bay southward in the Coast Range, and south of Columbia (California, USA) in the Sierra Nevada, to extreme N Baja California (Mexico).
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: " San Bernardino Mts " [N of San Bernardino, 4,500 feet (1,372 m), San Bernardino Co., California, USA].
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Tamias merriami in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437444.