Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked Squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Dremomys everetti
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Tribe: Callosciurini
Genus: Dremomys
Heude, 1898
Species

D. everetti (Thomas, 1890)
D. gularis (Osgood, 1932)[7]
D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)
D. pernyi (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895)
D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)

Red-cheeked squirrels (genus Dremomys) form a taxon under the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.

References

  1. Duckworth, J. W., Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys rufigenis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  2. Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). Dremomys pyrrhomerus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  3. Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys pernyi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  4. Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys lokriah. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  5. Lunde, D., Duckworth, J. W., Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). Dremomys everetti. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Lunde, D. (2008). "Dremomys gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
  7. 7.0 7.1 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
  8. Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780