Junín Red Squirrel
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| Junín Red Squirrel | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Sciurus |
| Subgenus: | Hadrosciurus |
| Species: | S. pyrrhinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sciurus pyrrhinus Thomas, 1898 |
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The Junín Red Squirrel (Sciurus pyrrhinus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Peru.
[edit] References
- ^ Amori, G., Koprowski, J. & Roth, L. (2008). Sciurus pyrrhinus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
- 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.
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