Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked Squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Dremomys everetti
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". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  2. Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  3. Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  4. Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  5. Lunde, D., Duckworth, J. W., Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). "Dremomys everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  6. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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
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