Sciuridae Fischer de Waldheim 1817

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Sciuridae; Tundra; Lynx
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6819442; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6819442

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. • • 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 • . • 2 species Critically Endangered, 16 species Endangered, 15 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600. Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Sciuridae, pp. 648-837 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 648, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6840226