Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1825
Primary Source Reference:
Richard Harlan, Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabitating North America (Philadelphia, 1825), pp. 176-177 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194227
Additional Source Text:
"The above description is taken from a specimen in the Philadelphia Museum, brought from near New Orleans, and is, without doubt, distinct from the Gray Squirrel."
Notes:
Both Richard Harlan and John Godman identify this species as "Sciurus rufiventer Geoff" (a subspecies of the fox squirrel now known as Sciurus niger rufiventer É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,1803), or Say's squirrel, based on the Museum's New Orleans specimen. Godman called it the red-belly squirrel (American Natural History. Part I. Mastology, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1826-1828), 2: 141 / https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t3wt2j207?urlappend=%3Bseq=…
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Scientific Name:
Sciurus rufiventer (Harlan's name)
Current Common Name:
Western fox squirrel
Current Scientific Name
Sciurus niger rufiventer
