All life on Earth

This is the biggest group the red squirrel belongs to. It also includes every other living thing on this planet - plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and protists - anything that is alive. We cannot even estimate how many things belong to this group!

Red squirrels belong to:
All life on Earth

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Rodentia

Family: Sciuridae

Genus: Sciurus

Species: vulgaris

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