Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked Squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Dremomys everetti
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1][2][3][4][5][6]
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.

• The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis) is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.^[8]
• The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, is named after British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.
• The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.
• Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
• The red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus) is found in China and Vietnam.
• The red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis) is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China.^[6] It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes^[7] - 2,500 to 3,000 metres (1.6 to 1.9 mi) in the case of the type specimen.^[6]

References

1. Duckworth, J. W., Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys rufigenis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
2. Smith, A. T. & Johnston, C. H. (2008). Dremomys pyrrhomerus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
3. Lunde, D. & Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys pernyi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
4. Molur, S. (2008). Dremomys lokriah. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
5. Lunde, D., Duckworth, J. W., Lee, B. & Tizard, R. J. (2008). Dremomys everetti. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
6. 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. 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

• 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.