Shrew-faced squirrel
Shrew-faced squirrel | |
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Conservation status | |
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
Genus: | Rhinosciurus Blyth, 1856 |
Species: | R. laticaudatus |
Binomial name | |
Rhinosciurus laticaudatus (S. Müller, 1840) | |
The shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus), also known as the long-nosed squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Rhinosciurus.[2] It is found in forests in Peninsular Malaysia (possibly also in adjacent southern Thailand), Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. This peculiar, terrestrial squirrel mainly feeds on insects and earthworms.[3] It quite closely resembles a Tupaia treeshrew in appearance, but the shrew-faced squirrel can be recognized by its shorter gape, and shorter and more bushy tail.[3]
References
- ^ Meijaard, E. (2017). "Rhinosciurus laticaudatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T42460A22241116. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T42460A22241116.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Rhinosciurus Blyth, 1856". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b Ecology Asia: Shrew-faced Ground Squirrel. Archived 2009-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha
- Ear-spot squirrel (Callosciurus adamsi)
- Kloss's squirrel (Callosciurus albescens)
- Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis)
- Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
- Pallas's squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)
- Finlayson's squirrel (Callosciurus finlaysonii)
- Hon Khoai squirrel (Callosciurus honkhoaiensis)
- Inornate squirrel (Callosciurus inornatus)
- Mentawai squirrel (Callosciurus melanogaster)
- Black-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus)
- Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes)
- Phayre's squirrel (Callosciurus phayrei)
- Prevost's squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)
- Irrawaddy squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythrus)
- Anderson's squirrel (Callosciurus quinquestriatus)
(Red-cheeked squirrels)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti)
- Red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis)
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
- Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi)
- Red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis)
- Philippine pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus concinnus)
- Least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi)
- Subgenus Funambulus: Layard's palm squirrel (Funambulus layardi)
- Dusky palm squirrel (Funambulus obscurus)
- Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
- Nilgiri palm squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus)
- Jungle palm squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus)
- Subgenus Prasadsciurus: Northern palm squirrel (Funambulus pennantii)
- Sculptor squirrel (Glyphotes simus)
- Montane long-nosed squirrel (Hyosciurus heinrichi)
- Lowland long-nosed squirrel (Hyosciurus ileile)
(striped ground squirrels)
- Four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei)
- Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
- Niobe ground squirrel (Lariscus niobe)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel (Lariscus obscurus)
- Berdmore's ground squirrel (Menetes berdmorei)
- Black-eared squirrel (Nannosciurus melanotis)
- Secretive dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus abstrusus)
- Alston's Sulawesi dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus alstoni)
- Whitish dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus leucomus)
- Celebes dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus murinus)
- Sanghir squirrel (Prosciurillus rosenbergii)
- Roux's Sulawesi dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus topapuensis)
- Weber's dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus weberi)
- Shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus)
- Red-bellied squirrel (Rubrisciurus rubriventer)
- Subgenus Aletesciurus: Davao squirrel (Sundasciurus davensis)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Sundasciurus everetti)
- Horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus juvencus)
- Mindanao squirrel (Sundasciurus mindanensis)
- Culion tree squirrel (Sundasciurus moellendorffi)
- Philippine tree squirrel (Sundasciurus philippinensis)
- Palawan montane squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori)
- Samar squirrel (Sundasciurus samarensis)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii)
- Subgenus Sundasciurus: Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei)
- Fraternal squirrel (Sundasciurus fraterculus)
- Jentink's squirrel (Sundasciurus jentinki)
- Low's squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii)
- Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis)
- Robinson's squirrel (Sundasciurus robinsoni)
- Upland squirrel (Sundasciurus tahan)
- Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis)
- Subgenus incertae sedis:
- Sumatran mountain squirrel (Sundasciurus altitudinis)
(Asiatic striped squirrels)
- Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
- Maritime striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus)
- Cambodian striped squirrel (Tamiops rodolphii)
- Swinhoe's striped squirrel (Tamiops swinhoei)
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