Callosciurus caniceps

(J. E. Gray, 1842)

Northern Gray-bellied Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Callosciurinae
Tribe : Callosciurini
Genus : Callosciurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1842-12-01. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)10(65):255-267.

Original name as described

Sciurus caniceps

Other common names

Gray-bellied Squirrel

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:213a (= BMNH:Mamm:1841.1817)

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Bhotan," restricted by Robinson and Kloss in 1918 to N Tenasserim, Myanmar.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

China? · Myanmar · Laos? · Thailand

Taxonomy notes

previously included C. concolor

Taxonomy notes citation

Hinckley, A., Maldonado, J.E., Tamura, N., Leonard, J.A. and Hawkins, M.T.R. 2024. Lost in synonymy: Integrative species delimitation reveals two unrecognized species of Southern Asian tree squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae: Callosciurinae). Vertebrate Zoology 74:683-707. doi:10.3897/vz.74.e133467

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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