Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Scandentia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 104-109 : 106

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

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scientific name

Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857
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Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857 View in CoL

Tupaia dorsalis Schlegel 1857 View in CoL , Handl. Beoef. Dierk., Vol. 1: 59.

Type Locality: W Borneo, lower Kapuas River.

Vernacular Names: Striped Treeshrew.

Distribution: Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak ( Malaysia), Brunei, and Kalimantan ( Indonesia) except SE, at low to moderate elevations (below 1,000 m).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Endemic to Borneo. United with T. tana in the genus Tana by Lyon (1913), but this arrangement is probably not natural (see Dene et al., 1978).

Dene, H., M. Goodman, and W. Prychodko. 1978. An immunological examination of the systematics of Tupaioidea. Journal of Mammalogy, 59: 697 - 706.

Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1913. Tree shrews: An account of the mammalian family Tupaiidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45: 1 - 188.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Scandentia

Family

Tupaiidae

Genus

Tupaia