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 Tamias merriami J. A. Allen, 1889 . Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 2:176 . TYPE LOCALITY: "San Bernardino Mts" [N of San Bernardino, 4,500 feet ( 1,372 m ), San Bernardino Co., California , USA ] . DISTRIBUTION: San Francisco Bay southward in the Coast Range, and south of Columbia ( California , USA ) in the Sierra Nevada , to extreme N Baja California ( Mexico ). SYNONYMS: kernensis (Grinnell and Storer, 1916); mariposae (Grinnell and Storer, 1916); pricei J. Allen, 1895. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotamias . Formerly included meridionalis and obscurus ; see Callahan (1977). See also comment under obscurus .