The golden-backed squirrel (scientific name: Callosciurus caniceps) is an animal of the genus Callosciurus, native to western Malaysia, Thailand and southern Myanmar. It has been artificially introduced to the Ryukyu Islands. In China, it is distributed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and other places. The type locality of this species is in Myanmar.
This species was previously regarded as a subspecies of the red-bellied squirrel for a long time. There is little ecological information about this species.