Lowland long-nosed squirrel
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The lowland long-nosed squirrel (''Hyosciurus ileile'') is a species of
rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ...
in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.


References

*Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Hyosciurus Rodents of Sulawesi Mammals described in 1936 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub