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Western Dwarf Squirrel
Microsciurus mimulus (Thomas, 1898)
Also calledArdilla cusca (spa) · Ardilla enana de occidente (spa) · Esquilo-anão-ocidental (por) · Westelijke Dwergeekhoorn (nld) · Westliches Zwerghörnchen (deu) · equadorinoravainen (fin) · veveřička oranžovobřichá (ces) · wiewióreczka leśna (pol) · Западная карликовая белка (rus) · アメリカコビトリス (jpn) · 西方倭松鼠 (zho)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol.2 p.266
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. Western Dwarf Squirrels are diurnal. They are sympatric with Central American Dwarf Squirrels (M. alfari) but are found at higher elevations. Where Western Dwarf Squirrels are sympatric with Andean Squirrels (Sciurus pucheranii), they seem to move to lower elevations.
Sciuridae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Evergreen foothills and highland forests at elevations above 800 m in Panama but lower elevations in Colombia and Ecuador.
Sciuridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.
Sciuridae
breeding
Breeding. There is no specific information available for this species, but pairs of Western Dwarf Squirrels are occasionally seen.
Sciuridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Microsciurus mimulus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437360.