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Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857

Description

Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857

Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857, Handl. Beoef. Dierk., Vol. 1: 59.

Type Locality: W Borneo, lower Kapuas River.

Vernacular Names: Striped Treeshrew.

Distribution: Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak (Malaysia), Brunei, and Kalimantan (Indonesia) except SE, at low to moderate elevations (below 1,000 m).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Endemic to Borneo. United with T. tana in the genus Tana by Lyon (1913), but this arrangement is probably not natural (see Dene et al., 1978).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Scandentia, pp. 104-109 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 106, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schlegel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Scandentia
Family
Tupaiidae
Genus
Tupaia
Species
dorsalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel, 1857 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1913. Tree shrews: An account of the mammalian family Tupaiidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45: 1 - 188.
  • Dene, H., M. Goodman, and W. Prychodko. 1978. An immunological examination of the systematics of Tupaioidea. Journal of Mammalogy, 59: 697 - 706.