#0266 · 🦊 mammals

Variegated Squirrel

🇳🇱 Midden-Amerikaanse Eekhoorn ·Sciurus variegatoides

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © silkevs · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Mario Reyes Castillo · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Chris Rohrer · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © msr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Morten Ross · CC BY 4.0
7. © Michelle Monge-Velazquez · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Jonathan David Martinez Cantillano · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © augurapart · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The variegated squirrel ( Sciurus variegatoides ) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. It is a common squirrel and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it a "least-concern species". Variegated squirrels kept as pets in Germany have been implicated in the transmission of a bornavirus to humans from which three people have died.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,436iNaturalist 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.
10,436 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Ogilby in 1839 (187 years ago).