Sciurus anomalus Giildenstaedt 1785

Sciurus anomalus Giildenstaedt,1785. In Schreber, Die Säugeth., 4:781. TYPE LOCALITY: "without exact indication of locality" (Ognev, 1966:368). Restricted by Güldenstadt (1785, see Ognev, 1940:423) to Sabeka, 25 km SW of Kutais, Georgia. DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Transcaucasia (Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Georgia), N and W Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel. SYNONYMS: caucasicus Pallas, 1811; fulvus Blanford, 1875; historicus Gray, 1867; pallescens (Gray, 1867); persicus Erxleben, 1777 (may be based on Glis glis); russatus Wagner, 1842; syriacus Ehrenberg, 1828. COMMENTS: Subgenus Tenes (Corbet, 1978c:76). Russian authors ascribe this species to Gmelin, 1778. Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:148
Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 439-440, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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