Mount Graham red squirrel

Mount Graham red squirrel

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Tamiasciurus
Species:
T. fremonti
Subspecies:
T. f. grahamensis
Trinomial name
Tamiasciurus fremonti grahamensis
(J. A. Allen, 1894)
Synonyms
  • Sciurus hudsonicus grahamensis J. A. Allen, 1894[4]: 350 
  • Tamasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis (J. A. Allen, 1894)

The Mount Graham red squirrel (Tamiasciurus fremonti grahamensis) is an endangered subspecies of the southwestern red squirrel (Tamiasciurus fremonti)[5] native to the Pinaleño Mountains of Arizona. It is smaller than most other subspecies of red squirrel, and also does not have the white-fringed tail that is common to the species. Its diet consists mainly of mixed seeds, conifer cones and air-dried fungi. It exhibits similar behavior to other squirrels in its species.

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Mount Graham red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis)". Environmental Conservation Online System. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ^ Shull, Alisa M. (3 June 1987). "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Endangered Status for the Mount Graham Red Squirrel". Federal Register. 52 (106): 20994–20999. 52 FR 20994
  4. ^ Allen, J.A. (1894). "Descriptions of Five New North American Mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 6: 347–350. Retrieved 6 September 2024 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ "Explore the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-09-11.