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Sundasciurus lowii

Description

Sundasciurus lowii (Thomas, 1892). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 2:253.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Lumbidan, on the mainland opposite Labuan " [Sarawak, Malaysia].

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysian subregion, except Java and SW Philippines.

SYNONYMS: alacris (Thomas, 1908); balae (Miller, 1903); bangueyae (Thomas, 1910); humilis (Miller, 1913); lingungensis (Miller, 1901); natunensis (Thomas, 1895); piniensis (Miller, 1903); robinsoni (Bonhote, 1903); seimundi (Thomas and Wroughton, 1909); vanakeni (Robinson and Kloss, 1916).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sundasciurus. Formerly included fraterculus and pumilus (Chasen, 1940:144).

Notes

Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 451, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

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Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Sundasciurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Species
lowii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sundasciurus lowii (Thomas, 1892) sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993

References

  • Miller, G. S., Jr., and J. A. G. Rehn. 1901. Systematic results of the study of North American land mammals to the close of the year 1900. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 30 (1): 1 - 352.
  • Thomas, O. 1895. Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals from northern Luzon, collected by Mr. John Whitehead. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 160 - 164.
  • Robinson, H. C., and C. B. Kloss. 1916. Preliminary diagnoses of some new species and subspecies of mammals and birds obtained in Korinchi, West Sumatra, Feb. - June 1914. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 73: 269 - 278.
  • Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.