Sundasciurus
Appearance
Sundasciurus | |
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Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
Tribe: | Callosciurini |
Genus: | Sundasciurus Moore, 1958 |
Type species | |
Sciurus lowii | |
Species | |
Subgenus Sundasciurus |
Sundasciurus is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae.[1] It contains 20 species:
- Genus Sundasciurus
- Sumatran mountain squirrel (Sundasciurus altitudinis)
- Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei)
- Davao squirrel (Sundasciurus davensis)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Sundasciurus everetti)
- Fraternal squirrel (Sundasciurus fraterculus)
- Horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus)
- Busuanga squirrel (Sundasciurus hoogstraali)
- Jentink's squirrel (Sundasciurus jentinki)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus juvencus)
- Low's squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii)
- Mindanao squirrel (Sundasciurus mindanensis)
- Culion tree squirrel (Sundasciurus moellendorffi)
- Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis)
- Philippine tree squirrel (Sundasciurus philippinensis)
- Palawan montane squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori)
- Robinson's squirrel (Sundasciurus robinsoni)
- Samar squirrel (Sundasciurus samarensis)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii)
- Upland squirrel (Sundasciurus tahan)
- Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis)
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- den Tex, R.-J., Thorington, R., Maldonado, J.E., Leondard, J.A. 2010. Speciation dynamics in the SE Asian tropics: Putting a time perspective on the phylogeny and biogeography of Sundaland tree squirrels, Sundasciurus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 711–720.
- Hawkins, M.T.R., Helgen, K.M., Maldonado, J.E., Rockwood, L.L., Tsuchiya, M.T.N., Leonard, J.A. 2016. Phylogeny, biogeography and systematic revision of plain long-nosed squirrels (genus Dremomys, Nannosciurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 752–764.
- Hinckley, A., Hawkins, M. T., Achmadi, A. S., Maldonado, J. E., & Leonard, J. A. (2020). Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 208.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00208/full