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Sanborn's Squirrel

Sciurus sanborni

Classification

Family
Sciuridae

Sanborn's squirrel (Sciurus sanborni) is or was a little known tree squirrel described in 1944 from the skin and skeleton of a single female specimen collected in Peru in 1941. Subsequently, over the proceeding years only a handful of either specimens were collected, or observations were recorded, in the regions of Madre de Dios and northern Puno in Peru, and Pando department in Bolivia (single sighting, Conservation International, 1992). The 2019 IUCN assessment describes it as endemic to Peru.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru