Red-cheeked squirrel
Red-cheeked squirrels (genus Dremomys) form a taxon under the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
- 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.[7] It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes[1] - 2,500 to 3,000 metres (1.6 to 1.9 mi) in the case of the type specimen.[7]
| Red-cheeked squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
| Genus: | Dremomys Heude, 1898 |
| Species | |
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D. everetti (Thomas, 1890) | |
References
- 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
- Duckworth, J. W.; Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys rufigenis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Lunde, D.; Duckworth, J. W.; Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). "Dremomys everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.
- 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.
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