Funambulus | |
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Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
Tribe: | Funambulini Pocock, 1923 |
Genus: | Funambulus Lesson, 1835 |
Type species | |
Sciurus indicus | |
Species | |
Funambulus layardi | |
Synonyms | |
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Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family, the only one in tribe Funambulini.[1] It contains these species:[2][3]
- Genus Funambulus
- Subgenus Funambulus
- Layard's palm squirrel (F. layardi)
- Dusky palm squirrel (F. obscurus)
- Indian palm squirrel (F. palmarum)
- Nilgiri striped palm squirrel (F. sublineatus)[4]
- Jungle palm squirrel (F. tristriatus)
- Subgenus Prasadsciurus
- Northern palm squirrel (F. pennantii)
- Subgenus Funambulus
Etymology
"Funambulus" is the Latin word for "rope-dancer".[5]
References
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- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Funambulus, MSW3
- ^ Dissanayake, Rajith; Oshida, Tatsuo (2012). "The systematics of the dusky striped squirrel, Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and its relationships to Layard's squirrel, Funambulus layardi Blyth, 1849" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (1–2): 91–116. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.626126.
- ^ Rajith Dissanayake. 2012. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus), and the dusky striped squirrel (Funambulus obscurus), two additions to the endemic mammal fauna of India and Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7
- ^ Simpson, D.P. (2002). Cassell's Latin English Dictionary (Reprint ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-02-013340-7.