- Red-cheeked squirrel
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Red-cheeked Squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to RecentScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Subfamily: Callosciurinae Tribe: Callosciurini Genus: Dremomys
Heude, 1898Species Dremomys everetti
Dremomys gularis
Dremomys lokriah
Dremomys pernyi
Dremomys pyrrhomerus
Dremomys rufigenisRed-cheeked Squirrels (genus Dremomys) form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Callosciurinae. They are only found in Asia.
There are six species of Red-cheeked Squirrels:
- Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel, Dremomys everetti
- Red-throated Squirrel, Dremomys gularis
- Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel, Dremomys lokriah
- Perny's Long-nosed Squirrel, Dremomys pernyi
- Red-hipped Squirrel, Dremomys pyrrhomerus
- Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel, Dremomys rufigenis
References
- 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.
Categories:- Dremomys
- Squirrels
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