Sundasciurus hippurus

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

Horse-tailed Squirrel

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

<i>In</i> Bélanger (ed.), Voy. Indes Orient., Mamm., vol. 3(Zoologie), 149

Original name as described

Sciurus hippurus

Type material

MNHN 159

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Java." Restricted by H. C. Robinson and C. B. Kloss in 1918 to Malaysia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Thailand · Malaysia · Indonesia · Brunei

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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