THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Sciuridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Thirteen-lined Ground SquirrelIctidomys tridecemlineatus (Mitchill, 1821) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Javanese Flying SquirrelIomys horsfieldii (Waterhouse, 1838) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mentawai Flying SquirrelIomys sipora Chasen & Kloss, 1928 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Four-striped Ground SquirrelLariscus hosei (Thomas, 1892) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Niobe Ground SquirrelLariscus niobe (Thomas, 1898) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray MarmotMarmota (Marmota) baibacina Kastschenko, 1899 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bobak MarmotMarmota (Marmota) bobak (Müller, 1776) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alaska MarmotMarmota (Marmota) broweri Hall & Gilmore, 1934 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-capped MarmotMarmota (Marmota) camtschatica (Pallas, 1811) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan MarmotMarmota (Marmota) himalayana (Hodgson, 1841) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Forest Steppe MarmotMarmota (Marmota) kastschenkoi Stroganov & Yudin, 1956 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alpine MarmotMarmota (Marmota) marmota (Linnaeus, 1758) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Menzbier's MarmotMarmota (Marmota) menzbieri (Kashkarov, 1925) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| GroundhogMarmota (Marmota) monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tarbagan MarmotMarmota (Marmota) sibirica (Radde, 1862) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hoary MarmotMarmota (Petromarmota) caligata (Eschscholtz, 1829) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-bellied MarmotMarmota (Petromarmota) flaviventris (Audubon & Bachman, 1841) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Olympic MarmotMarmota (Petromarmota) olympus (Merriam, 1898) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vancouver Island MarmotMarmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth, 1911 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indochinese Ground SquirrelMenetes berdmorei (Blyth, 1849) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central American Dwarf SquirrelMicrosciurus alfari (J. A. Allen, 1895) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amazon Dwarf SquirrelMicrosciurus flaviventer (Gray, 1867) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western Dwarf SquirrelMicrosciurus mimulus (Thomas, 1898) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Santander Dwarf SquirrelMicrosciurus santanderensis (Hernández-Camacho, 1957) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Pygmy SquirrelMyosciurus pumilio (Le Conte, 1857) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-eared SquirrelNannosciurus melanotis (Müller, 1840) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ring-tailed Ground SquirrelNotocitellus annulatus (Audubon & Bachman, 1842) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Baja California Rock SquirrelOtospermophilus atricapillus (Bryant, 1889) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| California Ground SquirrelOtospermophilus beecheyi (Richardson, 1829) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rock SquirrelOtospermophilus variegatus (Erxleben, 1777) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alexander's Bush SquirrelParaxerus alexandri (Thomas & Wroughton, 1907) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boehm's Bush SquirrelParaxerus boehmi (Reichenow, 1886) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Smith's Bush SquirrelParaxerus cepapi (A. Smith, 1836) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cooper's Mountain SquirrelParaxerus cooperi Hayman, 1950 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Striped Bush SquirrelParaxerus flavovittis (Peters, 1852) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black and Red Bush SquirrelParaxerus lucifer (Thomas, 1897) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ochre Bush SquirrelParaxerus ochraceus (Huet, 1880) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red Bush SquirrelParaxerus palliatus (Peters, 1852) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Green Bush SquirrelParaxerus poensis (A. Smith, 1830) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Svynnerton's Bush SquirrelParaxerus vexillarius (Kershaw, 1923) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vincent's Bush SquirrelParaxerus vincenti Hayman, 1950 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Pygmy Flying SquirrelPetaurillus emiliae Thomas, 1908 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hose's Pygmy Flying SquirrelPetaurillus hosei (Thomas, 1900) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Selangor Pygmy Flying SquirrelPetaurillus kinlochii (Robinson & Kloss, 1911) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red and White Giant Flying SquirrelPetaurista alborufus (Milne-Edwards, 1870) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray-headed Flying SquirrelPetaurista caniceps (Gray, 1842) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spotted Giant Flying SquirrelPetaurista elegans (Müller, 1840) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese Giant Flying SquirrelPetaurista leucogenys (Temminck, 1827) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hodgson's Giant Flying SquirrelPetaurista magnificus (Hodgson, 1836) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bhutan Giant Flying SquirrelPetaurista nobilis (Gray, 1842) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.