Tupaia ferruginea

Raffles, 1821

Sumatran Treeshrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Scandentia
Family : Tupaiidae
Genus : Tupaia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Raffles, S. 1821-06-21. Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, under the direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough; with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of those countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13(1):239-274.

Original name as described

Tupaia ferruginea

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1879.11.21.573

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Bencoolen [= Bengkulu Province]," Sumatra, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

split from T. glis; the name siberu is tentatively included under this species as a synonym

Taxonomy notes citation

Sargis, E.J., Woodman, N., Reese, A.T., Olson, L.E. 2013. Using hand proportions to test taxonomic boundaries within the Tupaia glis species complex (Scandentia, Tupaiidae). Journal of Mammalogy 94(1): 183-201. · Sargis, E. J., Woodman, N., Morningstar, N. C., Reese, A. T., & Olson, L. E. (2014). Island history affects faunal composition: the treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae) from the Mentawai and Batu Islands, Indonesia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 111(2), 290-304.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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