#0268 · 🦊 mammals

Red-tailed Squirrel

🇳🇱 Roodstaartboomeekhoorn ·Sciurus granatensis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Joshua Wade Covill · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alejandro Bayer Tamayo · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © barloventomagico · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia:© pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica:© Bart Wursten · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Cl. 9 Sur #32-269, El Poblado, Medellín, El Poblado, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia:© Ismael EPM · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. Avenida Buenos Aires, Chiriqui, PA:© Heidi Erstad · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-tailed squirrel ( Sciurus granatensis ) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Central and South America. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,158iNaturalist 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.
10,158 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Alexander von Humboldt in 1811 (215 years ago).