Mearns's squirrel
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Mearns's squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii mearnsi) is a subspecies of the Douglas squirrel endemic to Mexico.[2] It is endangered and occurs in low densities, and is threatened by habitat loss.[1][3] It is possibly also threatened by competition from the eastern gray squirrel, which was introduced to the range of Mearns's squirrel in 1946, but may not be present anymore.[3] It is closely related to other subspecies of the Douglas squirrel, but far less is known about its behavior, which was first studied in detail in 2004.[3] It is named for the 19th-century American naturalist Edgar Mearns.[4]
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Mearns's squirrel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Tamiasciurus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | T. d. mearnsi |
Trinomial name | |
Tamiasciurus douglasii mearnsi (Townsend, 1897) | |
Synonyms | |
Tamiasciurus mearnsi |
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