Sanghir squirrel | |
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On Siau Island (Sangir Islands, Indonesia) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Prosciurillus |
Species: | P. rosenbergii
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Binomial name | |
Prosciurillus rosenbergii (Jentink, 1879)
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The Sanghir squirrel (Prosciurillus rosenbergii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.[2] It is endemic to the volcanic Sangir Islands (where they are the only squirrel) in Indonesia, located just north of the equator in the Celebes Sea, between the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.[1]