Red-hipped Squirrel

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Red-hipped Squirrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Dremomys
Species: D. pyrrhomerus
Binomial name
Dremomys pyrrhomerus
(Thomas, 1895)

The Red-hipped Squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in China and Vietnam.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Dremomys pyrrhomerus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • 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.