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Melanistic eastern gray squirrel in Santa Clara, California.. Black squirrels are a melanistic subgroup of squirrels with black coloration on their fur. The phenomenon occurs with several species of squirrels, although it is most frequent with the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger).
The black giant squirrel or Malayan giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa native to the Indomalayan zootope.It is found in forests from northern Bangladesh, northeast India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, West Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and western Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Bali and nearby small islands).
The word squirrel, first attested in 1327, comes from the Anglo-Norman esquirel which is from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus, which was taken from the Ancient Greek word σκίουρος (skiouros; from σκία-ουρος) 'shadow-tailed', referring to the long bushy tail which many of its members have.
Deppe's squirrel, Sciurus deppei; Japanese squirrel, Sciurus lis; Calabrian black squirrel, Sciurus meridionalis [2] 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
Melanistic black eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Melanistic guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are rare, and are used in rituals by Andean curanderos. [1]Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
With the exception of his flicking tail, a black squirrel lays flat out while enjoying some bird seed in a yard in Moreland Hills, Ohio on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Sciurini (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ n iː /) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels, [2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American ...
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