Red Squirrel – Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Tamiasciurus hudsonicusErxleben, 1777

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

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.

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.