Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Callosciurinae
Genus:	Dremomys Heude, 1898
Type species
Sciurus pernyi A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
Species
D. gularis(Osgood, 1932) [1] D. lokriah(Hodgson, 1836) D. pernyi(A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) D. pyrrhomerus(Thomas, 1895) D. rufigenis(Blanford, 1878)

Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae. ^[2] The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

• The red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis) is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China. ^[8] It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis , but lives at higher attitudes ^[1] - 2,500 to 3,000 metres (1.6 to 1.9 mi) in the case of the type specimen. ^[8]
• The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.
• Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
• The red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus) is found in China and Vietnam.
• The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis) is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. ^[9]

The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, was moved from this genus to Sundasciurus .

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Dremomys gularis". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
2. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Genus Dremomys". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
3. Duckworth, J.W. (2017). "Dremomys rufigenis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T6824A22256057. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6824A22256057.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
4. Smith, A.T.; Johnston, C.H. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Dremomys pyrrhomerus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T6823A115084598. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6823A22255933.en . Retrieved 6 October 2025.
5. Lunde, D.; Molur, S. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Dremomys pernyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T6822A115084426. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6822A22255797.en . Retrieved 6 October 2025.
6. Molur, S. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T6821A115084234. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6821A22255622.en . Retrieved 6 October 2025.
7. Tizard, R.J (2016). "Dremomys everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T6820A22255505. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6820A22255505.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
8. Laginha Pinto Correia, D. (2019). "Dremomys gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T136313A22255420. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136313A22255420.en . Retrieved 6 October 2025.
9. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Dremomys rufigenis". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 780. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.