SCANDENTIA, Wagner, 1855

Pearch, Malcolm J., 2011, A review of the biological diversity and distribution of small mammal taxa in the terrestrial ecoregions and protected areas of Nepal 3072, Zootaxa 3072 (1), pp. 1-286 : 70-71

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ORDER SCANDENTIA

FAMILY TUPAIIDAE

Tupaia belangeri ( Wagner, 1841) View in CoL MAP No. 53 Northern Tree shrew

Cladobates belangeri Wagner, 1841: 42 . Siriam, near Rangoon, Pegu, Burma [ Myanmar].

Tupaia belangeri lepcha Thomas, 1922a: 428 . Narbong, near Darjeeling, India, 2,000 ft.

Records.— Johnson et al. (1980) (as Tupaia glis lepcha Thomas, 1922a ) (see note 1): Chatra (USNM 290063, USNM 290064).

Non-specific records.— Blanford (1888 –91): "... as far west as Nepal." (as Tupaia ferruginea —see note 2).— Helgen (2005): "... far E. India and Nepal, ...".—Mitchell (1975) (as T. g. lepcha): Nepal.

Note.— 1 Measurements of USNM specimens are given in Appendix II.

2 Tupaia ferruginea Raffles 1821 , is regarded as a synonym of Tupaia glis ( Diard, 1820) View in CoL (see Helgen, 2005: 106, who states that the distribution of T. glis View in CoL extends no further north than about 10ºN.). The species identified by Blanford ( Tupaia ferruginea ) now would be regarded most probably as Tupaia belangeri View in CoL : concerning the distribution of ferruginea , the author, himself, writes: "Throughout Burma, extending to Assam, and along the lower slopes of the Himalayas, between 3000 and 6000 feet ... as far west as Nepal. To the southward the rufous form [as opposed to the ferruginous form being described by Blanford] extends to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo."

3 Hinton & Fry (1923) state that Tupaia belangeri chinensis Anderson, 1879 View in CoL , which Helgen (2005) places in the synonymy of belangeri View in CoL , was not collected from Nepal but probably from Sikkim.

4 Worth & Shah (1969) record Tupaia glis from Nepal based on the collection of the species by L. W. Quate and M. Nadchatram between November, 1965 and January, 1966 but the record is discounted in light of the limits on the species' geographical distribution given by Helgen (2005). The Tupaia to which Worth & Shah (1969) refer is most likely belangeri and it is probable that the single specimen that constitutes the record was misidentified.

I.U.C.N. status.—Least concern (ver. 3.1, 2001)

Year of assessment: 2008.

References

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Blanford, W. T. (1888 - 91) The fauna of British India. Mammalia. Taylor & Francis, London. 617 pp.

Diard, P. M. (1820) Report of a meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for March 10 th, 1820. Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies: 10, 477 - 478.

Helgen, K. M. (2005) Order Scandentia. Pp. 104 - 109. In: Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. [Eds.] (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2 vols. 2142 pp.

Hinton, M. A. C. & Fry, T. B. (1923) Report No. 37: Nepal. Bombay Natural History Society's Mammal Survey of India, Burma and Ceylon. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 29, 399 - 428.

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Raffles, T. S. (1821) Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the honourable East India 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 illustrative of the natural history of those countries. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London, 13, 239 - 274.

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Worth, R. M. & Shah, N. K. (1969) Nepal Health Survey, 1965 - 1966. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. ix + 158 pp.