Mearns's Squirrel

Mearns's Squirrel
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Tamiasciurus
Species:	T. mearnsi
Binomial name
Tamiasciurus mearnsi (Townsend, 1897)

Mearns's Squirrel (Tamiasciurus mearnsi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.^[2] It is endemic to pine and fir forests at altitudes of 2,100–2,400 metres (6,900–7,900 ft) in central Baja California in Mexico.^[1] This endangered species occurs in low densities and is threatened by habitat loss.^[1][3] It is possibly also threatened by competition from the Eastern Gray Squirrel, which was introduced to the range of the Mearns's Squirrel in 1946, but may not be present anymore.^[3] The Mearns's Squirrel is closely related to the Douglas Squirrel, but far less is known about its behavior, which was first studied in detail in 2004-2005.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} de Grammont, P. C. & Cuarón, A. (2008). Tamiasciurus mearnsi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 8 January 2009.
2. ^ Thorington, Richard W., Jr.; Hoffman, Robert S. (16 November 2005). "Family Sciuridae (pp. 754-818)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 766. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400278. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Koprowski, Ramos, Pasch & Zugmeyer (2006). Observation on the ecology of the endemic Mearn's Squirrel (Tamiasciurus mearnsi). The Southwestern Naturalist. 51(3): 426-430

External links

• Tamiasciurus mearnsi, Mammal Species of the World