Tamias dorsalis Baird, 1855 . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 7:332.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., New Mexico, Grant Co., Fort Webster, copper mines of the Mimbres (= near Santa Rita) .

DISTRIBUTION: E. Nevada, S. Idaho, Utah, S.W. Wyoming, and N.W. Colorado south through Arizona and W. New Mexico (U.S.A.) to N.W. Durango, W. Coahuila, and coastal Sonora (Mexico).

COMMENT: Reviewed by Callahan and Davis, 1977, Southwest. Nat., 22:71, who included sonoriensis in this species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002007006001 as Eutamias dorsalis .