Sundasciurus robinsoni

(Bonhote, 1903)

Robinson's 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

Bonhote, J.L.J. 1903. Report on the mammals. Pp. 1–45 in Annandale, N. and Robinson, H.C. (eds.). Fasciculi Malayenses. Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902. Zoology. Part I. The University Press of Liverpool.

Original name as described

Sciurus robinsoni

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1903.2.6.55

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, Patani, Peninsular Thailand, 2500 ft (= 762 m).

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Thailand · Malaysia · Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

split from S. lowii

Taxonomy notes citation

Hinckley, A., Hawkins, M. T., Achmadi, A. S., Maldonado, J. E., & Leonard, J. A. (2020). Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 208.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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