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SPECIES Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 63. | Common Name: | Eurasian Red Squirrel | Type Locality: | "in Europae arboribus." Restricted by Thomas (1911a:148) to Uppsala, Sweden. | Distribution: | Forested regions of Palearctic, from Iberia and Great Britain east to Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Isl (Russia); south to Mediterranean and Black Seas, N Mongolia, W and NE China. | Status: | IUCN – Near Threatened. | Comments: | Subgenus Sciurus. For discussion of taxonomy, see Sidorowicz (1971), Corbet (1978c), Wiltafsky (1978), and Gromov and Erbaeva (1995). Oshida et al. (1993) and Oshida and Yoshida (1997) described chromosomes of S. v. orientis. |
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