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{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
{{distinguish|Red-bellied tree squirrel|Mexican gray squirrel}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite journal | author = Helgen, K. | author2 = Aplin, K. | name-list-style=amp | title = ''Rubrisciurus rubriventer'' | journal = [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] | volume = 2008 | page = e.T19762A9011990 | publisher = [[IUCN]] | date = 2008 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19762/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T19762A9011990.en | access-date = 12 January 2018| doi-access = free }}</ref>
| display_parents = 2
| genus = Rubrisciurus
| parent_authority = [[Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet|Ellerman]], 1954
| species = rubriventer
| authority = ([[Salomon Müller|S. Müller]] & [[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1844)
}}

[[File:ID_-_Sulawesi.png | thumb | right | alt=Location of Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia | Location of Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia]]
The '''red-bellied squirrel''' or '''Sulawesi giant squirrel''' ('''''Rubrisciurus rubriventer''''') is a species of [[squirrel]]. Until recently, it was described as a species in the [[genus]] ''[[Callosciurus]]'', but since the 1990s it is generally placed in its own genus ''Rubrisciurus''. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] on the Indonesian island of [[Sulawesi]], where it is widespread. It has also been found on [[Sangir Island]] to the north of Sulawesi. With a length of 25&nbsp;cm (head and body), it is rather large for a squirrel. It lives in the tree tops of the rainforests of the island.{{cn|date=October 2022}}

==References==
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*Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp.&nbsp;754–818 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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[[Category:Mammals described in 1844]]
[[Category:Rodents of Sulawesi]]
[[Category:Callosciurinae]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Salomon Müller]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Hermann Schlegel]]


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