Red-bellied squirrel

Taxobox | name = Red-bellied squirrel
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
subfamilia = Callosciurinae
genus = "Rubrisciurus"
genus_authority = Ellerman, 1954
species = "R. rubriventer"
binomial = "Rubrisciurus rubriventer"
binomial_authority = (Müller and Schlegel, 1844)

The Red-bellied squirrel ("Rubrisciurus rubriventer") is a species of squirrel. Until recently, it was described as a species in the genus "Callosciurus", but since the 1990s it is generally placed in its own genus "Rubrisciurus". It is endemic on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. With a length of 25 cm (head and body), it is rather large for a squirrel. It lives in the tree tops of the rainforests of the island.

It should not be confused with the Red-bellied Tree Squirrel ("Callosciurus erythraeus") of Thailand, Burma, Indo-China, Taiwan, and Japan.

References

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*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.