Red-bellied squirrel
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Not to be confused with Red-bellied Tree Squirrel.
| Red-bellied squirrel Temporal range: Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
| Genus: | Rubrisciurus Ellerman, 1954 |
| Species: | R. rubriventer |
| Binomial name | |
| Rubrisciurus rubriventer (Müller and Schlegel, 1844) |
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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.
[edit] References
- ^ Helgen, K. & Aplin, K. (2008). Rubrisciurus rubriventer. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
- 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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