Syntheosciurus brochus
– Lower Risk Near Threatened
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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MAMMALIA
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Order:
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RODENTIA
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Family:
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SCIURIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Syntheosciurus brochus
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Species Authority:
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Bangs, 1902
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | BANGS'S MOUNTAIN SQUIRREL, MOUNTAIN SQUIRREL, NEOTROPICAL MONTANE SQUIRREL |
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LR/nt ver 2.3 (1994)
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Year Assessed:
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1996
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Annotations:
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Needs updating
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Assessor/s:
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Baillie, J.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988) |
| 1990 | - | Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990) |
| 1994 | - | Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994) |
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Geographic Range
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Countries:
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Native:
Costa Rica; Panama
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Population
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Population Trend:
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial
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List of Habitats:
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| 1.6 | Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland |
| 3.5 | Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry |
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Threats
Bibliography
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Bibliography:
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Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
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