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Sciurus arizonensis is a member of the order Rodentia and the family Sciuridae. It is distinguishable from Sciurus aberti by its longer flatter skull, broader rostrum, and having only one molar instead of two. S. arizonensis also has smaller ears with no tufts and a red/black stripe on the underside of their tail. Some sexual dimorphism can be ...
Abert's squirrel, Sciurus aberti; Arizona gray squirrel, Sciurus arizonensis; Mexican fox squirrel, Sciurus nayaritensis; Fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Spermophilus lateralis; Mexican ground squirrel, Spermophilus mexicanus; Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Spermophilus tridecimlineatus
The Mexican gray squirrel (Sciurus aureogaster), from southern Mexico and Guatemala; introduced into the Florida Keys Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
The genus Sciurus (/ s aɪ ˈ jʊər ə s / or / s ɪ ˈ j uː r ə s /) contains most of the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North America, Europe, temperate Asia, Central America and South America.
Amazon dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus flaviventer) Gray, 1867, western Amazon basin; Western dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus mimulus) Thomas, 1898, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama; Santander dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus santanderensis) Hernández-Camacho, 1957, central Colombia
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 ...
The currently accepted scientific name for Abert's squirrel is Sciurus aberti Woodhouse, 1853. [4] Woodhouse had initially described the species as Sciurus dorsalis in 1852, but this name turned out to be preoccupied by Sciurus dorsalis Gray, 1849 (now a subspecies of variegated squirrel S. variegatoides), and thus the present species was renamed.
The variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. [2] It is a common squirrel and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it a "least-concern species".