SCIURIDAE

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

Family SCIURIDAE

(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.

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10-130 cm.

• Holarctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan Regions.

• 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.