Coahuila chipmunk

Coahuila chipmunk
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Neotamias
Species:	N. solivagus
Binomial name
Neotamias solivagus (A. H. Howell, 1922)

The Coahuila chipmunk (Neotamias solivagus), also called the Sierra del Carmen chipmunk, is a species of chipmunk native to the Gran Sierra Plegada of the Sierra Madre Oriental, in the central area of eastern Coahuila and western Nuevo León, in northern Mexico. It was formerly considered a subspecies of both Neotamias bulleri^[1] and Neotamias durangae. Those two species are found in the Sierra Madre Occidental, while this species is native to the Sierra Madre Oriental.^[2]

References

1. Howell, Arthur H. (1 August 1922). "Diagnoses of seven new chipmunks of the genus Eutamias, with a list of the American species". Journal of Mammalogy. 3 (3): 179–180. doi:10.2307/1373666. JSTOR 1373666.
2. Ramirez-Pulido, Jose; Gonzalez-Ruiz, Noe; Gardner, Alfred; Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin (18 September 2014). "List of Recent Land Mammals of Mexico, 2014". Special Publications Museum of Texas Tech University. Special publications - the Museum, Texas Tech University. 63: 52. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.142891. ISBN 978-1-929330-27-0. Retrieved 8 December 2023.