SCIURIDAE, Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6840226 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6819442 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/064D0660-FFCD-ED30-FE2D-FDECF7D9F26E |
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Diego |
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SCIURIDAE |
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Family SCIURIDAE View in CoL
(TREE, FLYING AND GROUND SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS, MARMOTS AND PRAIRIE DOGS)
• Fairly small to medium semi-fossorial, gliding and arboreal, primarily herbivorous and granivorous rodents with prominent ever-growing incisors and well developedjaw.
• • 10-130 cm. View Figure
• Holarctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan Regions. View Figure
• From deserts through grasslands and forests to mountains and tundra, from cold temperate zones to tropics.
• 60 genera, 292 species, 1040 taxa
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• 2 species Critically Endangered, 16 species Endangered, 15 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
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