Variegated Squirrel
Sciurus variegatoides
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 6,113
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. It is a common squirrel and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it a "least-concern species". Variegated squirrels kept as pets in Germany have been implicated in the transmission of a bornavirus to humans from which three people have died.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Variegated squirrel”.