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Mount Graham red squirrel
Subspecies of rodent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mount Graham red squirrel (Tamiasciurus fremonti grahamensis) is an endangered subspecies of the southwestern red squirrel (Tamiasciurus fremonti)[3] native to the Pinaleño Mountains of Arizona. It is smaller than most other subspecies of red squirrel, and also does not have the white-fringed tail that is common to the species. Its diet consists mainly of mixed seeds, conifer cones and air-dried fungi. It exhibits similar behavior to other squirrels in its species.
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Mount Graham red squirrel | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Tamiasciurus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | T. f. grahamensis |
Trinomial name | |
Tamiasciurus fremonti grahamensis (J. A. Allen, 1894) | |
Synonyms | |
Tamasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis |
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