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Also the book "Keys for identifying Mexican mammals" by Alvarez-Castañeda, ST et al., 2017, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, recognizes as separate species Neotamias solivagus and Neotamias durangae, page 390, N. solivagus endemic from Coahuila and Nuevo León, clarifying, to date there is no published record of any locality in Nuevo León, only two localities, the Sierra de La Concordia as a type locality and the Sierra de San Antonio de Las Alazana in Arteaga, both in Coahuila.
Personally, if the change will be reflected in the next version of the MDD, and members of the iNaturalist user-base request it, I think integrating the specified taxon is fine.
If it were a species recently described under questionable methodology, or a species not widely accepted, I would hold reservations. But this is fine to me.
However, I believe @loarie has reservations about this type of integration and would rather we follow MDD as currently available. I encourage him to chime in. I also believe Jakob is of the opinion that we should stick to whatever authority we chose for mammals and keep deviations to a minimum.
The American Mammalogist Association already considers Neotamias solivagus as a species of its own
https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html
The Mammal Diversity Database of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) is your home base for tracking the latest taxonomic changes to living and recently extinct (i.e., since ~1500 CE) species and higher taxa of mammals.
Species ID Genus Species Family Order
1001757 Neotamias solivagus Sciuridae Rodentia
and this paper accepts the species Neotamias solivagus
http://mastozoologiamexicana.com/ojs/index.php/theryanotes/article/view/71/48
http://mastozoologiamexicana.com/ojs/index.php/theryanotes/article/view/71
Taxon change requested here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49875362
MDD doesn't currently recognize this species, but intends to do so in the next release. I'm not sure if we've made a decision about whether to wait for the release or go ahead? @bobby23