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Durango Chipmunk
Tamias durangae (J.A.Allen, 1903)
First described in: Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol.19 p.594
The Durango chipmunk (Neotamias durangae) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. The Durango Chipmunk is diurnal and appears to enter short bouts of torpor in winter.
Sciuridae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Mesic mixed pine-oak forests (Pinus, Pinaceae; Quercus, Fagaceae) of Sierra Madre Occidental. Subspecies solivagus appears to prefer mesic mixed pine-fir-aspen forests (Pinus, Abies, Pinaceae; Populus tremuloides, Salacaceae) above elevations of c. 2700 m, in the Sierra Madre Oriental biotic province.
Sciuridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.
Sciuridae
breeding
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Sciuridae
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
This species has a disjunct distribution, with populations in the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Mexico. In the Sierra Madre Occidental it is found from southwestern Chihuahua to southern Durango, in humid areas between 1,980 and 2,590 meters elevation. The eastern population lives in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra del Carmen of Coahuila, where is ranges from 2,590 to 2,900 meters elevation.
== References ==
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Tamias durangae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437429.