Red-bellied squirrel
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| Red-bellied squirrel Fossil range: Recent |
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| Rubrisciurus rubriventer (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.
[edit] References
- Baillie (1996). Rubrisciurus rubriventer. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- 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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