Mexican gray squirrel
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Sciurinae |
| Genus: | Sciurus |
| Subgenus: | Sciurus |
| Species: | S. aureogaster |
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Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier, 1829 |
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The Mexican gray squirrel (or red-bellied squirrel) (Sciurus aureogaster) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus native to Guatemala and eastern and southern Mexico. It has been introduced in the Florida Keys.
The alternate name of this squirrel (red-bellied squirrel) should not be confused with the Indonesian red-bellied squirrel (Rubrisciurus rubriventer) or the Asian red-bellied tree squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus).
The two subspecies each have many synonyms associated with them:
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