Painted treeshrew

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Painted treeshrew[1]
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T. picta
Binomial name
Tupaia picta
Thomas, 1892
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Painted treeshrew range

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The painted treeshrew (Tupaia picta) is a treeshrew species of the family Tupaiidae.[1] It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits the forested lowlands of Brunei, Kalimantan, and Sarawak.[2] Its diet consists mainly of fruits and insects.

The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.[3]

References

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  3. Thomas, O. (1892). On some new Mammalia from the East-Indian Archipelago. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 (9): 250–254.


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