Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked squirrels (genus Dremomys) form a taxon under the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Red-cheeked squirrels
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Genus: Dremomys
Heude, 1898
Species

D. everetti (Thomas, 1890)
D. gularis (Osgood, 1932)[1]
D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)
D. pernyi (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895)
D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)

References

  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
  2. Duckworth, J. W.; Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys rufigenis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  5. Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. Lunde, D.; Duckworth, J. W.; Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). "Dremomys everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. Lunde, D. (2008). "Dremomys gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T136313A4273170. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136313A4273170.en. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  8. Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780
  • 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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