Red-cheeked squirrel
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| Red-cheeked Squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
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Dremomys
Heude, 1898
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Red-cheeked squirrels (genus Dremomys) form a taxon under the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.
- The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis) is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[8]
- The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, is named after British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.
- The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.
- Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
- The red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus) is found in China and Vietnam.
- The red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis) is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China.[6] It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes[7] - 2,500 to 3,000 metres (1.6 to 1.9 mi) in the case of the type specimen.[6]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, J. W., Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys rufigenis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). Dremomys pyrrhomerus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys pernyi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys lokriah. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Lunde, D., Duckworth, J. W., Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). Dremomys everetti. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
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- ↑ Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
