Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae Author Robert S. Hoffmann Author Charles G. Anderson text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 419 465 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353130 1-56098-217-9 7353130 Sciurus anomalus Giildenstaedt,1785 . In Schreber, Die Säugeth., 4:781 . TYPE LOCALITY: "without exact indication of locality" ( Ognev, 1966:368 ). Restricted by Güldenstadt (1785, see Ognev, 1940:423 ) to Sabeka, 25 km SW of Kutais, Georgia . DISTRIBUTION: Turkey , Transcaucasia ( Armenia , Azerbaidzhan, Georgia ), N and W Iran , Syria , Lebanon , Israel . SYNONYMS: caucasicus Pallas, 1811 ; fulvus Blanford, 1875 ; historicus Gray, 1867; pallescens (Gray, 1867); persicus Erxleben, 1777 (may be based on Glis glis ); russatus Wagner, 1842; syriacus Ehrenberg, 1828. COMMENTS: Subgenus Tenes ( Corbet, 1978c:76 ) . Russian authors ascribe this species to Gmelin, 1778. Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:148