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The Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) is a pine squirrel found in western North America, from the Pacific Northwest (including the northwestern coastal states of the United States as well as the southwestern coast of British Columbia in Canada) to central California, with an isolated subspecies in northern Baja California, Mexico.
Mearns's squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii mearnsi) is a subspecies of the Douglas squirrel endemic to Mexico. [2] It is endangered and occurs in low densities, and is threatened by habitat loss . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It is possibly also threatened by competition from the eastern gray squirrel , which was introduced to the range of Mearns's squirrel in ...
Pine squirrels, Tamiasciurus species, are small tree squirrels with bushy tails. Along with members of the genus Sciurus, they are members of the Sciurini tribe.. The name Tamiasciurus comes from Greek wiktionary:ταμίας tamías ‘steward, dispenser’ and wiktionary:σκίουρος skíouros 'squirrel'.
The American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) is one of three species of tree squirrels currently classified in the genus Tamiasciurus, known as the pine squirrels (the others are the Douglas squirrel, T. douglasii, and the southwestern red squirrel, T. fremonti).
Sciurini (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ n iː /) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels, [2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American ...
Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii [n 4] LC. Mearn's squirrel, T. d. mearnsi EN; Southwestern red squirrel, Tamiasciurus fremonti [11] [9] NE (Mount Graham red squirrel, T. f. grahamensis: E) North American red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus [n 4] LC (Mount Graham red squirrel, T. h. grahamensis: E)
Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii; American red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; Hoary marmot, Marmota caligata; Yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris; Olympic marmot, Marmota olympus; California ground squirrel, Otospermophilus beecheyi; Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Callospermophilus lateralis
The word squirrel, first attested in 1327, comes from the Anglo-Norman esquirel which is from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus, which was taken from the Ancient Greek word σκίουρος (skiouros; from σκία-ουρος) 'shadow-tailed', referring to the long bushy tail which many of its members have.