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Red-cheeked squirrel

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Red-cheeked squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Genus: Dremomys
Heude, 1898
Type species
Sciurus pernyi
Species

D. gularis (Osgood, 1932)[1]
D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)
D. pernyi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)
D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895)
D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)

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, was moved from this genus to Sundasciurus.

References

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  1. ^ a b 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
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  4. ^ Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  5. ^ Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  6. ^ Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  7. ^ 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. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. ^ a b c 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.
  9. ^ Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780