Southern Amazon Red Squirrel
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| Sciurus spadiceus Olfers, 1818 |
The Southern Amazon Red Squirrel, Sciurus spadiceus, is a squirrel species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
This species is fairly large in size and has a reddish brown pelage.
[edit] References
- Baillie (1996). Sciurus spadiceus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
- Thorington, R. W. and R. S. Hoffmann. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
