Southern Amazon Red Squirrel

Southern Amazon Red Squirrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Subgenus: Urosciurus
Species: S. spadiceus
Binomial name
Sciurus spadiceus
Olfers, 1818
Subspecies[2]
  • S. s. spadiceus
  • S. s. steinbachi
  • S. s. tricolor

The Southern Amazon Red Squirrel, Sciurus spadiceus, is a squirrel species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

This species is fairly large in size and has a reddish brown pelage.

References

  1. ^ Amori, G., Koprowski, J. & Roth, L. (2008). Sciurus spadiceus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
  2. ^ Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 754–818. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 26158608. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=12400001.