Asiatic striped squirrel

Asiatic striped squirrel

Taxobox
name = Asiatic Striped Squirrels
fossil_range = Late Pliocene to Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
subfamilia = Callosciurinae
tribus = Callosciurini
genus = "Tamiops"
genus_authority = Allen, 1906
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Tamiops mcclellandii"
"Tamiops maritimus"
"Tamiops rodolphii"
"Tamiops swinhoei"

Asiatic Striped Squirrels (genus "Tamiops") form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Callosciurinae. They are only found in Asia.

There are four species of Asiatic striped squirrels:
*Himalayan Striped Squirrel, "Tamiops mcclellandii"
*Maritime Striped Squirrel, "Tamiops maritimus"
*Cambodian Striped Squirrel, "Tamiops rodolphii"
*Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel, "Tamiops swinhoei"

References

*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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