Pine squirrel
| Pine squirrels Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
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| American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Sciurini |
| Genus: | Tamiasciurus Trouessart, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| [Sciurus vulgaris] hudsonicus Erxleben, 1777
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| Species | |
Pine squirrels are squirrels of the genus Tamiasciurus, in the Sciurini tribe, of the large family Sciuridae.