| Red-cheeked squirrels Temporal range: EarlyPleistocene to Recent | |
|---|---|
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| Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
| Genus: | Dremomys Heude, 1898 |
| Type species | |
| Sciurus pernyi A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 | |
| Species | |
D. gularis(Osgood, 1932)[1] | |
Red-cheeked squirrels arespecies of squirrels in thegenusDremomys in thesubfamilyCallosciurinae.[2] The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by theIUCN.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
TheBornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found inIndonesia andMalaysia, was moved from this genus toSundasciurus.
