Japanese Squirrel

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Japanese Squirrel

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Subgenus: Sciurus
Species: S. lis
Binomial name
Sciurus lis
Temminck, 1844

The Japanese Squirrel (Sciurus lis) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Japan.

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[edit] External links

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Sciurus lis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<www.iucnredlist.org> Accessed 29 January 2008.
  • 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species website.[1] Accessed 29 January 2008.
  • 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.