{{Short description|Species of rodent}} {{speciesbox | name = Sanborn's squirrel | image = | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Amori, G. |author2=Koprowski, J. |author3=Roth, L. |date=2019 |title=''Sciurus sanborni'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T20021A22246363 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T20021A22246363.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Sciurus | species = sanborni | authority = Osgood, 1944<ref name="Thorington">{{MSW3 Sciuridae|id= 12400197|page= 763}}</ref> | synonyms = }} '''Sanborn's squirrel''' ('''''Sciurus sanborni''''') is or was a little known tree squirrel described in 1944 from the skin and skeleton of a single female specimen collected in Peru in 1941.<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Osgood |first=Wilfred Hudson |date=1944 |title=Nine new South American rodents |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21050#page/7/mode/1up |journal=Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological Series |volume=29 |issue=13 |pages=191–192 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.3829 |access-date=11 August 2018|doi-access=free }}</ref> Subsequently, over the proceeding years only a handful of either specimens were collected, or observations were recorded, in the regions of Madre de Dios and northern Puno in Peru, and Pando department in Bolivia (single sighting, Conservation International, 1992).<ref name=GBIF>{{cite journal |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/5219689 |title=''Sciurus sanborni'' Osgood, 1944 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2017 |website=GBIF Backbone Taxonomy - Checklist dataset |publisher=GBIF Secretariat |doi=10.15468/39omei |access-date=11 August 2018}}</ref> The 2019 IUCN assessment describes it as endemic to Peru.<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /> In 2015 this taxon was synonymised with ''Notosciurus pucheranii'' ssp. ''boliviensis''.<ref name=Vivo>{{cite book |last=de Vivo |first=Mario |last2=Carmignotto |first2=Ana Paula |date=January 2015 |chapter=Family Sciuridae G. Fischer, 1817 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273129157 |editor1-last=Patton |editor1-first=James L. |editor2-last=Pardiñas |editor2-first=Ulyses F.J. |editor3-last=D'Elía |editor3-first=Guillermo |title=Mammals of South America Volume 2, Rodents |url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo18553844.html |edition=1 |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=41 |doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-226-16957-6 |access-date=11 August 2018}}</ref> Its habitat is tropical dry broadleaf forests at elevations up to 570 m.<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /> It is considered possibly rare and potentially vulnerable to deforestation, but its population trend is not established.<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /><ref name="Palmer2017">{{cite journal|journal=Mammalian Species|volume= 49|issue= 952|pages= 93–96|date=19 August 2017|last1= Palmer|first1= R.R.|last2= Koprowski|first2= J.L.|title= ''Sciurus sanborni'' |doi= 10.1093/mspecies/sex010|doi-access= free}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}}
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