Southern Amazon Red Squirrel
- Southern Amazon Red Squirrel
Taxobox
name = Southern Amazon Red Squirrel
status = lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Sciurus"
subgenus = "Urosciurus"
species = "S. spadiceus"
binomial = "Sciurus spadiceus"
binomial_authority = Olfers, 1818
The Southern Amazon Red Squirrel, "Sciurus spadiceus", is a squirrel species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
This species is fairly large in size and has a reddish brown pelage.
References
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*John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
*Thorington, R. W. and R. S. Hoffmann. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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