Cream-coloured giant squirrel

Cream-coloured giant squirrel
Jerantut, Peninsular Malaysia (above) and Sepilok, Malaysian Borneo (below). Bornean populations often are much darker than those elsewhere
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Ratufa
Species:
R. affinis
Binomial name
Ratufa affinis
(Raffles, 1821)
Subspecies[3]
  • R. a. affinis
  • R. a. bancana
  • R. a. baramensis
  • R. a. bunguranensis
  • R. a. cothurnata
  • R. a. ephippium
  • R. a. hypoleucos
  • R. a. insignis
  • R. a. polia
Cream-coloured giant squirrel range

The cream-coloured giant squirrel or pale giant squirrel (Ratufa affinis) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Indonesia), Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia) and nearby small islands. The species is near threatened and vulnerable to habitat degradation,[1] and it has probably been extirpated in Singapore where the last sighting was in 1995.[4] Reported sightings in Vietnam in 1984 are considered to be dubious.[3]

  1. ^ a b Meijaard, E. (2017). "Ratufa affinis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T19376A22261483. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T19376A22261483.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ a b Thorington, R.W. Jr; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 754. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  4. ^ Singapore biodiversity : an encyclopedia of the natural environment and sustainable development. Ng, Peter K. L., Corlett, Richard., Tan, Hugh T. W., Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet in association with Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. 2011. ISBN 978-981-4260-08-4. OCLC 719429723.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)