Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Rodentia | Sciuridae |
Scientific Name: | Callosciurus melanogaster (Thomas, 1895) | |||
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1ab(ii,iii)+2ab(ii,iii) ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Date Assessed: | 2016-05-05 |
Assessor(s): | Lee, B. |
Reviewer(s): | Amori, G. |
Contributor(s): | Lunde, D.P., Tizard, R.J & Duckworth, J.W. |
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Clayton, E. & Kennerley, R. |
Justification: The Mentawai Squirrel is assessed as Vulnerable, because its extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km² and its area of occupancy is less than 2,000 km², it is known from only the four islands belonging to the Mentawai Archipelago, its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is a continuing decline in the extent and quality of its forest habitat. |
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Range Description: | This species is endemic to the Mentawai Archipelago, Indonesia. It occurs on Siberut, Sipura, and North Pagai islands (Thorington and Hoffmann 2005) and also South Pagai (Thorington et al. 2012). | ||||||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: Indonesia | ||||||||
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Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | The population of this species has been much reduced due to forest loss on all four islands. | ||
Current Population Trend: | ![]() | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This species lives in lowland primary and secondary forest. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat: | Yes |
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Use and Trade: | There is no use and trade information for this species. |
Major Threat(s): | The habitat of this species is being deforested for timber, firewood and conversion to agricultural land. |
Conservation Actions: | This species is present in Siberut National Park. |
IUCN. 2016. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-3. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2016). Thorington Jr., R.W. and Hoffmann, R.S. 2005. Family Sciuridae. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reader (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 754-818. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA. Thorington Jr., R.W, Koprowski, J.L., Steele, M.A. and Whatton, J.F. 2012. Squirrels of the World. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. |
Citation: | Lee, B. 2016. Callosciurus melanogaster. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T3598A22254282. . Downloaded on 26 April 2018. |
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