Tamiops swinhoei

(A. Milne-Edwards, 1874)

Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Milne-Edwards, A. 1874-06-22. [Livraisons 16-20]. Pp. 305–386 in Milne-Edwards, A. 1872-1874. Mémoire sur la Faune mammalogique du Tibet oriental, et principalement de la principauté de Moupin. Pp. 231–386 in Milne-Edwards, H. and Milne-Edwards, A. 1868-1874. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères. Tome premier – Texte. G. Masson, Paris, 394 pp.

Original name as described

Sciurus macclellandii var. swinhoei

Type locality

"Moupin [Muping]," Baoxing, Sichuan, China. Restricted by G. M. Allen in 1940 to "Hongchantin...about 6000 feet [1829 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Myanmar · Vietnam · Laos

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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