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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
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]
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 ...
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)
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 ...
The Indian palm squirrel or three-striped palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found naturally in India (south of the Vindhyas) and Sri Lanka. In the late 19th century, the palm squirrel was introduced to Madagascar , Réunion , Mayotte , Comoro Islands , Mauritius , and Seychelles .
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 ...