Funambulus

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Funambulus
Temporal range: Recent
Funambulus palmarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Tribe: Funambulini
Pocock, 1923
Genus: Funambulus
Lesson, 1835
Subgenus: 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 rodent in the Sciuridae family.

It contains the following species:[1][2][3]

  • Genus Funambulus
    • Subgenus Funambulus
      • Layard's Palm Squirrel (Funambulus layardi)
      • Indian Palm Squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
      • Nilgiri Striped Palm Squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus)[4]
      • Dusky Palm Squirrel (Funambulus obscurus)
      • Jungle Palm Squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus)
    • Subgenus Prasadsciurus
      • Northern Palm Squirrel (Funambulus pennantii)

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. Rajith Dissanayake and Tatsuo Oshida. 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). Journal of Natural History. Vol 46(1-4):91-116
  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. Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7
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