Biology:Funambulus
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Short description: Genus of rodents
| Funambulus | |
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| Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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Funambulus layardi | |
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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
- ↑ 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400566.
- ↑ 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". Journal of Natural History 46 (1–2): 91–116. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.626126. https://zenodo.org/record/999860/files/article.pdf.
- ↑ 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. 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1004346 entry
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