Funambulus

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Funambulus
Indian Palm Squirrel (Funambulus palmarum).jpg
Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Genus: Funambulus
Lesson, 1835
Species

Funambulus layardi
Funambulus palmarum
Funambulus pennantii
Funambulus sublineatus
Funambulus obscurus
Funambulus tristriatus

Synonyms
  • Palmista Gray, 1867
  • Tamiodes Pocock, 1923

Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family. It contains these species:[1][2][3]

Etymology[]

"Funambulus" is the Latin word for "rope-dancer".[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  2. ^ Funambulus, MSW3
  3. ^ Dissanayake, Rajith; Oshida, Tatsuo (2012). "The systematics of the dusky striped squirrel, Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and its relationships to Layard's squirrel, Funambulus layardi Blyth, 1849" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (1–2): 91–116. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.626126.
  4. ^ Rajith Dissanayake. 2012. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus), and the dusky striped squirrel (Funambulus obscurus), two additions to the endemic mammal fauna of India and Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7
  5. ^ Simpson, D.P. (2002). Cassell's Latin English Dictionary (Reprint ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-02-013340-7.


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