page_title: Sciurus
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Sciurus / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Sciurus granatensis Humboldt 1811; Familia Sciuridae in Negra Hipolita Park in Valencia - Venezuela
context_page_description: The genus Sciurus contains most of the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North America, Europe, temperate Asia, Central America and South America.
context_section_description: The number of species in the genus is subject to change.
  In 2005 Thorington & Hoffman accepted 28 species in the genus; this is the taxonomic interpretation followed by the IUCN website (most squirrel assessments were written in 2008, despite most being dated 2016/2017):
  Genus Sciurus 
  Subgenus Sciurus
  Allen's squirrel, Sciurus alleni
  Arizona gray squirrel, Sciurus arizonensis
  Mexican gray squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster
  Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis
  Collie's squirrel, Sciurus colliaei
  Deppe's squirrel, Sciurus deppei
  Japanese squirrel, Sciurus lis
  Calabrian black squirrel, Sciurus meridionalis
  Mexican fox squirrel, Sciurus nayaritensis
  Fox squirrel, Sciurus niger
  Peters's squirrel, Sciurus oculatus
  Variegated squirrel, Sciurus variegatoides
  Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
  Yucatan squirrel, Sciurus yucatanensis
  Subgenus Otosciurus
  Abert's squirrel, Sciurus aberti
  Subgenus Guerlinguetus
  Brazilian squirrel (Guianan squirrel), Sciurus aestuans
  Yellow-throated squirrel, Sciurus gilvigularis
  Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis
  Bolivian squirrel, Sciurus ignitus
  Andean squirrel, Sciurus pucheranii
  Richmond's squirrel, Sciurus richmondi
  Sanborn's squirrel, Sciurus sanborni
  Guayaquil squirrel, Sciurus stramineus
  Subgenus Tenes
  Persian squirrel, Sciurus anomalus
  Subgenus Hadrosciurus
  Fiery squirrel, Sciurus flammifer
  Junín red squirrel, Sciurus pyrrhinus
  Subgenus Hesperosciurus
  Western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus
  Subgenus Urosciurus
  Northern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus igniventris
  Southern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus spadiceus
  In 2015, 15–17 species were left in the genus Sciurus after de Vivo & Carmignotto comprehensively reviewed South American Sciuridae for the first time in many decades and proposed numerous changes; synonymising some species and many subspecies, splitting another species, and naming new species. They followed Joel Asaph Allen's unsatisfying 1914 attempt in the early 20th century in splitting the genus Sciurus by raising the South American subgenera to the rank of genus, adding Urosciurus to Hadrosciurus, and splitting the genus Guerlinguetus in three. Their taxonomic treatment might also require Sciurus deppei to be moved to Notosciurus.
caption: Sciurus granatensis
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