Sanborn's squirrel

Species of rodent

Sanborn's squirrel
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Species:
S. sanborni
Binomial name
Sciurus sanborni
Osgood, 1944[2]

Sanborn's squirrel (Sciurus sanborni) is or was a little known tree squirrel described in 1944 from the skin and skeleton of a single female specimen collected in Peru in 1941.[1][3] Subsequently, over the proceeding years only a handful of either specimens were collected, or observations were recorded, in the regions of Madre de Dios and northern Puno in Peru, and Pando department in Bolivia (single sighting, Conservation International, 1992).[4] The 2019 IUCN assessment describes it as endemic to Peru.[1] In 2015 this taxon was synonymised with Notosciurus pucheranii ssp. boliviensis.[5] Its habitat is tropical dry broadleaf forests at elevations up to 570 m.[1] It is considered possibly rare and potentially vulnerable to deforestation, but its population trend is not established.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Amori, G.; Koprowski, J.; Roth, L. (2019). "Sciurus sanborni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T20021A22246363. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T20021A22246363.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Thorington, R.W. Jr; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 763. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ Osgood, Wilfred Hudson (1944). "Nine new South American rodents". Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological Series. 29 (13): 191–192. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3829. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Sciurus sanborni Osgood, 1944". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy - Checklist dataset. GBIF Secretariat. 2017. doi:10.15468/39omei. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  5. ^ de Vivo, Mario; Carmignotto, Ana Paula (January 2015). "Family Sciuridae G. Fischer, 1817". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.; D'Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Mammals of South America Volume 2, Rodents (1 ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 41. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001. ISBN 978-0226169576. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. ^ Palmer, R.R.; Koprowski, J.L. (19 August 2017). "Sciurus sanborni". Mammalian Species. 49 (952): 93–96. doi:10.1093/mspecies/sex010.
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Category
Taxon identifiers
Sciurus sanborni


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