Sundasciurus

Sundasciurus Temporal range: Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Callosciurinae
Genus:	Sundasciurus Moore, 1958
Species
Subgenus Sundasciurus brookei Sundasciurus fraterculus Sundasciurus jentinki Sundasciurus lowii Sundasciurus tenuis Subgenus Sundasciurus davensis Sundasciurus hippurus Sundasciurus hoogstraali Sundasciurus juvencus Sundasciurus mindanensis Sundasciurus moellendorffi Sundasciurus philippinensis Sundasciurus rabori Sundasciurus samarensis Sundasciurus steerii

Sundasciurus is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

It contains 20 species:

• Genus Sundasciurus
  • (Sundasciurus altitudinis)
  • Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei)
  • Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Sundasciurus everetti)
  • Fraternal squirrel (Sundasciurus fraterculus)
  • Jentink's squirrel (Sundasciurus jentinki)
  • Low's squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii)
  • (Sundasciurus natunensis)
  • Robinson's squirrel (Sundasciurus robinsoni)
  • (Sundasciurus tahan)
  • Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis)
  • Davao squirrel (Sundasciurus davensis)
  • Horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus)
  • Busuanga squirrel (Sundasciurus hoogstraali)
  • Northern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus juvencus)
  • Mindanao squirrel (Sundasciurus mindanensis)
  • Culion tree squirrel (Sundasciurus moellendorffi)
  • Philippine tree squirrel (Sundasciurus philippinensis)
  • Palawan montane squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori)
  • Samar squirrel (Sundasciurus samarensis)
  • Southern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii)

References[]

• den Tex, R.-J., Thorington, R., Maldonado, J.E., Leondard, J.A. 2010. Speciation dynamics in the SE Asian tropics: Putting a time perspective on the phylogeny and biogeography of Sundaland tree squirrels, Sundasciurus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 711–720.
• Hawkins, M.T.R., Helgen, K.M., Maldonado, J.E., Rockwood, L.L., Tsuchiya, M.T.N., Leonard, J.A. 2016. Phylogeny, biogeography and systematic revision of plain long-nosed squirrels (genus Dremomys, Nannosciurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 752–764.
• Hinckley, A., Hawkins, M. T., Achmadi, A. S., Maldonado, J. E., & Leonard, J. A. (2020). Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 208.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00208/full
• 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.

This squirrel article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t