SCIURIDAE, Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Sciuridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 648-837 : 648

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6840226

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6819442

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scientific name

SCIURIDAE
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

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