Red-cheeked squirrels are

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of squirrels in the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

''Dremomys'' in the subfamily

Callosciurinae The Callosciurinae are an Asiatic subfamily of squirrels containing over 60 species (mostly found in South East Asia) named after the genus ''Callosciurus'', which means "beautiful squirrels". Classification *Family SciuridaeThorington, R. W. Jr ...

. The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "

Least Concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

" by the IUCN. *The red-throated squirrel (''Dremomys gularis'') is distributed in parts of southeastern

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, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

and southern central

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

in China. It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, '' D. rufigenis'', but lives at higher attitudes - in the case of the type specimen. *The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (''Dremomys lokriah'') is found in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

, China,

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Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

and

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

. * Perny's long-nosed squirrel (''Dremomys pernyi'') is found in China,

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, and

. *The red-hipped squirrel (''Dremomys pyrrhomerus'') is found in China and

. *The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (''Dremomys rufigenis'') is found in

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

, China,

, Laos,

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, and

.Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, ''Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference'', Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780 The

Bornean mountain ground squirrel The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (''Sundasciurus everetti'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett. Distribution and habi ...

(''Dremomys everetti''), found in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

and

, was moved from this genus to '' Sundasciurus''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Red-Cheeked Squirrel Taxa named by Pierre Marie Heude