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The former range of the species, before the taxonomic split, was in both India and Sri Lanka, though the Nilgiri palm squirrel (F. sublineatus) is now restricted in distribution to the Western Ghats of India. [5] Very little is known of this squirrel, probably the smallest in the genus weighing about 40g.
Dusky palm squirrel is a common name applied to two rodents that were formerly considered to be a single species. Funambulus obscurus , native to Sri Lanka Funambulus sublineatus , or the Nilgiri striped squirrel, native to India
The dusky striped squirrel was best documented originally by W.W.A. Phillips in the Manual of the Mammals of Sri Lanka who identified it as the smallest Sri Lankan squirrel species. [6] It is much larger than the Indian species (F. sublineatus) being 60-70g [6] [1] as opposed to around 42g in the Nilgiri striped squirrel, with longer, thicker ...
Nilgiri striped squirrel; Northern palm squirrel This page was last edited on 20 August 2021, at 03:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This squirrel born without his hind legs is the embodiment of 'thinking on your feet.' A 15-second video has sprung up online showing the arboreal rodent manoeuvring with ease across a driveway on ...
Layard's palm squirrel (Funambulus layardi) (Blyth, 1849) Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) (Linnaeus, 1766) Jungle palm squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus) (Waterhouse, 1837) endemic; Northern palm squirrel (Funambulus pennantii) Wroughton, 1905; Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) (Waterhouse, 1838)
Maritime striped squirrel, T. maritimus; Cambodian striped squirrel, T. rodolphii; Swinhoe's striped squirrel, T. swinhoei; A fifth species was described in 2022: [3] Minshan striped squirrel, T. minshanica; Asiatic striped squirrels can be identified by the differences in the stripe pattern. For example, in some species, the stripe of the ...
The jungle palm squirrel, jungle striped squirrel, or Western Ghats squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae which is endemic to India. Habitat [ edit ]