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Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898

Description

Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898

Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 39.

Type Locality: Philippines, Culion Isl.

Vernacular Names: Calamian Treeshrew.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. moellendorffi Matschie 1898

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. busuangae Sanborn 1952

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. cuyonis Miller 1910

Distribution: Calamian Isls (Busuanga, Culion) and Cuyo in the Philippines.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable (as included in T. palawanensis).

Discussion: The three named forms included here appear more closely-related to each another than any is to T. palawanensis (where they are usually arranged; e.g. Heaney et al., 1998) and I provisionally separate them here as a distinctive complex; see also comments by Lyon (1913). This arrangement is somewhat more consistent with species-boundaries traditionally recognized in squirrels from the Palawan region (see accounts of Sundasciurus).

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 107, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Matschie
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Scandentia
Family
Tupaiidae
Genus
Tupaia
Species
moellendorffi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie, 1898 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Heaney, L. R., D. S. Balete, M. L. Dolar, A. C. Alcala, A. T. L. Dans, P. C. Gonzales, N. R. Ingle, M. V. Lepiten, W. L. R. Oliver, P. S. Ong, E. A. Rickart, B. R. Tabaranza, Jr., and R. C. B. Utzurrum. 1998. A synopsis of the mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 88: 1 - 61.
  • Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1913. Tree shrews: An account of the mammalian family Tupaiidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45: 1 - 188.