Glaucomas volans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 460

Glaucomas volans (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Virginia, Mexico "; restricted by Elliot (1901:109) to " Virginia ( U.S.A.)" .

DISTRIBUTION: Texas, Kansas, and Minnesota ( USA) to Nova Scotia ( Canada) and E USA; montane populations scattered from NW Mexico to Honduras.

STATUS: IUCN - Rare as G. v. goldmani , G. v. guerreroensis , and G. v. oaxacensis .

SYNONYMS: americana (Oken, 1816); chontali Goodwin, 1961; cucullatus (Fischer, 1829); goldmani (Nelson, 1904); guerreroensis Diersing, 1980; herreranus Goldman, 1936; madrensis Goldman, 1936 ; nebrascensis (Swenk, 1915); oaxacensis Goodwin, 1961; querceti (Bangs, 1896); saturatus A. Howell, 1915 ; situs (Bangs, 1896); texensis A. Howell, 1915; underwoodi Goodwin, 1936; virginianus (Tiedemann, 1808); volucella (Pallas, 1778);

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Dolan and Carter (1973, Mammalian Species, 78). For systematics and distribution of mesoamerican populations, see Diersing (1980a) and Braun (1988).