Sciurus ingrami

Ingram's squirrel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Species:
S. ingrami
Binomial name
Sciurus ingrami
Thomas, 1901

Sciurus ingrami, usually called Ingram's squirrel in English, is a squirrel found in South America.[1] It is known as serelepe in southeastern Brazil.[2][3] It is found in the Atlantic Forest Biome of Brazil and Misiones Province, Argentina.[1]

It is regarded variously as a species,[3][4] or as a subspecies of the Brazilian Squirrel Sciurus aestuans[5] or Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) brasiliensis.[1]

It is solitary and territorial, but has been seen to act together and mob a predatory cat, the margay.[6]

  1. ^ a b c de Vivo, Mario; Carmignotto, Ana Paula (January 2015). "Family Sciuridae G. Fischer, 1817". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.; D'Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Mammals of South America Volume 2, Rodents (1 ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 13–15. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001. ISBN 978-0226169576. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  2. ^ Bordignon, Marcelo; Monteiro‐Filho, E. L. A. (1999). "Seasonal Food Resources of the Squirrel Sciurus ingrami in a Secondary Araucaria Forest in Southern Brazil". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 34 (3): 137–140. doi:10.1076/snfe.34.3.137.8910. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b Bordignon, M.; Monteiro-Filho, E. L. A. (2000). "Behaviour and daily activity of the squirrel Sciurus ingrami in a secondary araucaria forest in southern Brazil". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 78 (10): 1732–1739. doi:10.1139/z00-104.
  4. ^ Paschoal, M.; Galetti, M. (1995). "Seasonal food use by the neotropical squirrel Sciurus ingrami in Southeastern Brazil". Biotropica. 27 (2): 268–273. doi:10.2307/2389006. JSTOR 2389006.
  5. ^ Thorington, R.W. Jr; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 759. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  6. ^ Alberto Solórzano-Filho, J. (2006). "Mobbing of Leopardus wiedii while hunting by a group of Sciurus ingrami in an Araucaria forest of Southeast Brazil / Assaillir du Leopardus wiedii tandis que chasse par un groupe de Sciurus ingrami dans une forêt d'Araucaria de sud-ouest au Brésil". Mammalia. 70 (1–2): 156–157. doi:10.1515/MAMM.2006.031.