Tupaia javanica

Horsfield, 1822

Horsfield's Treeshrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Horsfield, T. 1822-04. No. III. _Tupaia Javanica_. _Tupaia tana_. _Simia syndactyla_. _Pteropus rostratus_. _Falco Ichthyætus_. _Falco cærulescens_. _Timalia pileata_. _Timalia gularis_. _Cuculus xanthorhynchus_. in Horsfield, T. 1824. Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighbouring Islands. Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, London, not continuously paginated pp.

Original name as described

Tupaia javanica

Other common names

Javan Treeshrew

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1879.11.21.574, BMNH:Mamm:52a, BMNH:Mamm:52b

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"Java, Province of Blambangan," Indonesia. Restricted by M. W. Lyon, Jr. in 1913 to "probably near the present town of Banyu-wangi at extreme eastern end of Java."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Indonesia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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