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Horse-tailed squirrel

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tree squirrels. It is a medium-sized squirrel with a head-to-body length of 21.5 to 25 cm (8.5 to 9.8 in) and a tail length of 24 to 29 cm (9.4 to 11.4 in). The horse-tailed squirrel has a grizzled grey head, shoulders, forefeet and body with a whitish, dull orange, or red-brown underbelly. The tail
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in 1831 (I. Geoffroy, 1831), but subsequent descriptions of this squirrel's range have not included that nation.
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of this squirrel is commonly a glossy black or grey banded with black.
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The horse-tailed squirrel is the most colorful and largest of the
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Conservation status
Near Threatened
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Sundasciurus
Binomial name
I. Geoffroy

rodent
Sciuridae
Borneo
Sumatra
Malay Peninsula
Brunei
Malaysia
Indonesia
Thailand
Vietnam
Sundasciurus
"Sundasciurus hippurus"
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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