Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel

The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel, Dremomys lokriah, is a rodent of the squirrel family Sciuridae found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. Brian Hodgson first described it as Sciurus lokriah in 1836 from specimens collected in the South Tibet region near Mount Everest. Later workers named further forms from Manipur, the Chin Hills, Sikkim, the Garo Hills, the Mishmi Hills and China, some as separate species and most as subspecies, and eight subspecies are now regarded as valid, six of them occurring in India. These subspecies were validated by body-shape measurements and multivariate analysis, and molecular studies to test them have yet to be carried out, so the internal classification of the species is still open to revision.