Callosciurus finlaysonii

(Horsfield, 1824)

Finlayson's 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

Horsfield, T. 1824-01. No. VII. _Sciurus Plantani_. _Lutra leptonyx_. _Semnopithecus Pyrrhus_. _Rhinolophus nobilis_. _Brachypterix montana_. _Ardea speciosa_. _Muscicapa Banyumas_. _M. hirundinacea_. _Cuculus lugubris_. in Horsfield, T. 1824. Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighbouring Islands. Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, London, not continuously paginated pp.

Original name as described

Sciurus finlaysonii

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1879.11.21.521

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"the Islands called Sichang, in the Gulf of Siam," Koh Si Chang, Gulf of Thailand.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Myanmar · Thailand · Laos · Cambodia · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

the subspecies griseimanus and flavimanus (and all synonyms associated with these subspecies) have been moved from C. erythraeus to C. finlaysonii based on genetic data

Taxonomy notes citation

Balakirev, A. E., & Rozhnov, V. V. (2019). Taxonomic revision of beautiful squirrels (Callosciurus, Rodentia: Sciuridae) from the Callosciurus erythraeus/finlaysonii c omplex and their distribution in eastern Indochina. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 67, 459-489.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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