Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae.[2] The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Red-cheeked squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Genus: Dremomys
Heude, 1898
Type species
Sciurus pernyi
Species

D. gularis (Osgood, 1932)[1]
D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)
D. pernyi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)
D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895)
D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)

The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, was moved from this genus to Sundasciurus.

References

  1. Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (2005), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, retrieved 15 August 2009
  2. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. Duckworth, J.W. (2017). "Dremomys rufigenis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T6824A22256057. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6824A22256057.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  4. Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  5. Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  6. Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  7. Tizard, R.J (2016). "Dremomys everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6820A22255505. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6820A22255505.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. Lunde, D. (2008). "Dremomys gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T136313A4273170. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136313A4273170.en. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  9. Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780
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