Callosciurus erythraeus

(Pallas, 1779)

Pallas's Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Callosciurinae
Tribe : Callosciurini
Genus : Callosciurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1779. Fasciculus II. Pp. 71–388 in Pallas, P.S. 1778-1779. Novae species quadrupedum e glirium ordine cum illustrationibus variis complurium ex hoc ordine animalium. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 388 pp.

Original name as described

Sciurus erythraeus

Other common names

Formosan Squirrel · Red-bellied Squirrel

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type locality

Original type locality not known. Restricted by J. L. Bonhote in 1901 to Assam, India, and further restricted by J. C. Moore and G. H. H. Tate in 1965 to the Garo Hills of Assam.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Taiwan · India · Bhutan · Bangladesh · Myanmar · Laos · Vietnam · Thailand · Cambodia · Malaysia

Taxonomy notes

the subspecies griseimanus and flavimanus (and all synonyms associated with these subspecies) have been moved from C. erythraeus to C. finlaysonii based on genetic data

Taxonomy notes citation

Balakirev, A. E., & Rozhnov, V. V. (2019). Taxonomic revision of beautiful squirrels (Callosciurus, Rodentia: Sciuridae) from the Callosciurus erythraeus/finlaysonii c omplex and their distribution in eastern Indochina. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 67, 459-489.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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