Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898

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 : 107

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scientific name	Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898
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Tupaia moellendorffi Matschie 1898 , Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 39.

Type Locality: Philippines, Culion Isl.

Vernacular Names: Calamian Treeshrew.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. moellendorffi Matschie 1898

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. busuangae Sanborn 1952

Subspecies Tupaia moellendorffi subsp. cuyonis Miller 1910

Distribution: Calamian Isls (Busuanga, Culion) and Cuyo in the Philippines.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable (as included in T. palawanensis ).

Discussion: The three named forms included here appear more closely-related to each another than any is to T. palawanensis (where they are usually arranged; e.g. Heaney et al., 1998) and I provisionally separate them here as a distinctive complex; see also comments by Lyon (1913). This arrangement is somewhat more consistent with species-boundaries traditionally recognized in squirrels from the Palawan region (see accounts of Sundasciurus ).