Biology:Red-cheeked squirrel
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Short description: Genus of rodents
| Red-cheeked squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
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| Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
| Genus: | Dremomys Heude, 1898 |
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| Sciurus pernyi | |
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D. everetti (Thomas, 1890) | |
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]
- 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 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 .[8] 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.[8]
- 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 Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis) is found in Cambodia, China , India , Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (2005), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400539, retrieved 15 August 2009
- ↑ 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400537.
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6824/22256057. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Smith, A. T.; Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6823/0. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Lunde, D.; Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6822/0. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6821/0. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6820/22255505. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Lunde, D. (2008). "Dremomys gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T136313A4273170. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136313A4273170.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136313/4273170. 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
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