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Red squirrel | |
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Red squirrel in winter coat near Alverstone, Isle of Wight | |
Red squirrel in summer coat in Warsaw, Poland | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Sciurus |
Species: | S. vulgaris
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Binomial name | |
Sciurus vulgaris | |
Subspecies[2] | |
23 recognized, see text | |
Red squirrel range |
The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Europe and Asia. The red squirrel is an arboreal and primarily herbivorous rodent.