Natuna squirrel
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Natuna squirrel | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Sundasciurus |
Species: | S. natunensis
|
Binomial name | |
Sundasciurus natunensis (Thomas, 1895)
|
The Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Natuna Islands of Indonesia. This species first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1895 in a paper titled "Revised determinations of three of the Natuna rodents", where he described it as a subspecies of Sundasciurus lowii. It was recognized as a distinct species in 2020.[1]
References
- ^ Hinckley, Arlo; Hawkins, Melissa T. R.; Achmadi, Anang S.; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Leonard, Jennifer A. (2020). "Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00208. hdl:10261/218047. ISSN 2296-701X.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items
- Taxonbars with automatically added original combinations
- Taxonbars without secondary Wikidata taxon IDs
- Squirrels
- Rodents of Indonesia
- Rodents of Asia
- Mammals described in 1895
- Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
- All stub articles
- Squirrel stubs