#0473 · 🦊 mammals

Allen's Squirrel

Sciurus alleni

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Nayelli Rivera · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Nayelli Rivera · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Carlos G Velazco-Macias · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Municipio de Victoria, Tamps., México:© Martín Márquez · CC BY 4.0
5. Centro, Monterrey, N.L., México:© Jose S. Garza Herrera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. Zona de La Sierra Madre, 66250 San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico:© Mike Hannisian · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Nuevo León, MX:© danygl · CC BY 4.0
8. Nuevo León, MX:© danygl · CC BY 4.0
9. Nuevo León, MX:© danygl · CC BY 4.0
10. Sin Nombre de Col 36, Guadalupe, N.L., México:© magaly_gonzalez · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Allen's squirrel ( Sciurus alleni ) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to northern Mexico. It has no subspecies.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,028iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,028 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward William Nelson in 1898 (128 years ago).