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Sciurus niger (fox squirrel)
Taxonomy
Sciurus niger was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Sciurus cinereus Linnaeus p. 64 |
| 1758 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus p. 64 |
| 1911 | Sciurus niger Thomas p. 149 |
| 1980 | Sciurus niger Kurten and Anderson p. 220 |
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Sciurus niger Linnaeus 1758 [fox squirrel]
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Invalid names: Sciurus cinereus Linnaeus 1758 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Dunn and Rasmussen 2007, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Sciurus niger (227368) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Sciurus niger (195112) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Texas) | Sciurus niger (93527) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Sciurus niger (154805) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Sciurus niger (154722) | |
| Holocene | USA (Florida) | Sciurus niger (227371) | |
| Holocene | USA (Ohio) | Sciurus niger (195066) |