Red-bellied squirrel

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Not to be confused with Red-bellied tree squirrel or Mexican gray squirrel.
Red-bellied squirrel
Temporal range: Recent
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.

References

  1. ↑ Helgen, K. & Aplin, K. (2008). Rubrisciurus rubriventer. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 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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