What genus are both the red squirrel and the Calabrian black squirrel a part of?
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Calabrian black squirrel The Calabrian black squirrel ("Sciurus meridionalis") is a species of tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus", endemic to the forests of the regions of Calabria and Basilicata, in the south of the Italian Peninsula. It has been long considered a subspecies of "Sciurus vulgaris", the Eurasian red squirrel, but a 2017 scientific survey brought genetic evidence of being a distinct species.
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Red squirrel The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel ("Sciurus vulgaris") is a species of tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" common throughout Eurasia. The red squirrel is an arboreal, omnivorous rodent.
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Dusky palm squirrel (disambiguation) The name Dusky palm squirrel was once used to describe a species of squirrel found in India and Sri Lanka. The single species is now split into two separate species:
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Rio Negro brush-tailed rat The Rio Negro brush-tailed rat or dark brush-tailed tree rat ("Isothrix negrensis"), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
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Red rock hare The red rock hares are the four species in the genus Pronolagus. They are African lagomorphs of the family Leporidae.
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Yellow-throated squirrel The yellow-throated squirrel ("Sciurus gilvigularis") is a tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" endemic to South America. It is found in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela.
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Palawan montane squirrel The Palawan montane squirrel ("Sundasciurus rabori") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Red panda The red panda ("Ailurus fulgens"), also called the lesser panda, the red bear-cat, and the red cat-bear, is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs; it is slightly larger than a domestic cat. It is arboreal, feeds mainly on bamboo, but also eats eggs, birds, and insects. It is a solitary animal, mainly active from dusk to dawn, and is largely sedentary during the day.
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Little ground squirrel The little ground squirrel or little souslik, ("Spermophilus pygmaeus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found mostly in Central Asia east to the Aral Sea.
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Busuanga squirrel The Busuanga squirrel ("Sundasciurus hoogstraali") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
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Long-clawed ground squirrel The long-clawed ground squirrel ("Spermophilopsis leptodactylus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Spermophilopsis. It can be found in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Mountain ground squirrel The mountain ground squirrel ("Xerus princeps") is a rodent that is native to southwestern Angola, western Namibia, and western South Africa. It is also known as the Kaoko ground squirrel or the Damara ground squirrel.
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Mindanao squirrel The Mindanao squirrel ("Sundasciurus mindanensis") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
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Perote ground squirrel The Perote ground squirrel ("Xerospermosphilus perotensis") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico and is currently at risk of extinction. Perote ground squirrels live within the same area as rock squirrels ("Otospermophilus variegatus") but they use different microhabitats. In one case it also shares its habitat with the Mexican ground squirrel ("Ictidomys mexicanus"). Perote ground squirrels have traits similar to those of spotted ground squirrels ("X. spilosoma pallescens") found in the northern Mexican Plateau; however they are larger, have shorter tails and yellow backs. Its skull is relatively narrow with a large braincase and they have heavy, thick teeth. Perote ground squirrels have two annual cycles, an active phase (March–November) and a hibernation phase (December–February). Some overlap may occur in March and November however.
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Horse-tailed squirrel The horse-tailed squirrel ("Sundasciurus hippurus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found throughout the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, as well as the southern half of the Malay Peninsula, which includes the entire nations of Brunei and Malaysia, as well as some areas of Indonesia and Thailand. There was a mention of this squirrel being found in Vietnam in 1831 (I. Geoffroy, 1831), but subsequent descriptions of this squirrel's range have not included that nation.
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Pallas's squirrel Pallas's squirrel ("Callosciurus erythraeus"), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia.
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Weber's dwarf squirrel Weber's dwarf squirrel ("Prosciurillus weberi") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northern and western Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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Amazon dwarf squirrel The Amazon dwarf squirrel ("Microsciurus flaviventer") is a chipmunk-sized tree squirrel native to South America.
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Brazilian squirrel The Brazilian squirrel (or Guianan squirrel) ("Sciurus aestuans") is a tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" endemic to South America. It is found in North-eastern Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela.
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Blarinella Blarinella is a small genus of shrews in the subfamily Soricinae of the family Soricidae. It contains the following three species:
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Old World flying squirrel Commonly referred to as simply the Old World flying squirrels, the genus Pteromys is distributed across temperate Eurasia, Korean Peninsula and Japan. Although there are a host of flying squirrel genera in Asia (particularly southern Asia), "Pteromys" is the only one present in Europe.
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Squirrel-toothed rat The squirrel-toothed rat, New Guinea giant rat, powerful-toothed rat, uneven-toothed rat, or narrow-toothed giant rat (Anisomys imitator), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Anisomys.