Painted treeshrew

Painted treeshrew
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Scandentia
Family: Tupaiidae
Genus: Tupaia
Species:
T. picta[1]
Binomial name
Tupaia picta[1]
Thomas, 1892
Painted treeshrew range

The painted treeshrew (Tupaia picta) is a treeshrew species of the family Tupaiidae.[1]

The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.[3]

  1. ^ a b Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Tupaia picta". 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. 108. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ a b Cassola, F. (2016). "Tupaia picta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41499A22279973. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T41499A22279973.en. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ Thomas, Oldfield (1892). "On some new Mammalia from the East-Indian Archipelago". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6 (9): 250–254.