Tupaiidae Gray 1825

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Scandentia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 104-109 : 104

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Tupaiidae Gray 1825 View in CoL

Tupaiidae Gray 1825 View in CoL , Ann. Philos., n. s., 10: 339.

Genera: 4 genera with 19 species:

Genus Anathana Lyon 1913 (1 species)

Genus Dendrogale Gray 1848 (2 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Tupaia Raffles 1821 (15 species with 40 subspecies)

Genus Urogale Mearns 1905 (1 species)

Discussion: See Elliott (1971), Luckett (1980), and Emmons and Greene (2000) for references pertaining to tree shrew biology. For more detailed data on the distribution of tupaiid species on small islands on the Sunda Shelf, see Corbet (in Corbet and Hill, 1992).

References

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.

Gray, J. E. 1825. Outline of an attempt at the disposition of the Mammalia into tribes and families with a list of the genera apparently appertaining to each tribe. Annals of Philosophy, n. s., ser. 2, 10: 337 - 344.

Luckett, W. P. (ed.). 1980. Comparative biology and evolutionary relationships of tree shrews. Plenum Press, New York, 314 pp.

Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1913. Tree shrews: An account of the mammalian family Tupaiidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45: 1 - 188.

Raffles, T. S. 1821. Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the honorable East Indian Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, under the direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough, with additional notices illurstrative of the natural history. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13: 239 - 274.