Tamiops barbei

(E. Blyth, 1847)

Southeast Asian 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

Authority citation

Blyth, E. 1847. Supplementary Report by the Curator, Zoological Department. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16(2):864-878.

Original name as described

Sciurus Barbei

Type material

ZSI 9482, ZSI 9483

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Ye, Tenasserim, Myanmar.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Myanmar · Thailand · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia · Malaysia

Taxonomy notes

split from T. mcclellandii

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

Not Evaluated

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