Asiatic striped squirrel
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| Asiatic Striped Squirrels Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
| Tribe: | Callosciurini |
| Genus: | Tamiops Allen, 1906 |
| Species | |
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Tamiops mcclellandii |
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Asiatic striped squirrels are a genus, Tamiops, of squirrels in the subfamily Callosciurinae. They are only found in Asia.
There are four species of Asiatic striped squirrels:
- Himalayan Striped Squirrel, Tamiops mcclellandii
- Maritime Striped Squirrel, Tamiops maritimus
- Cambodian Striped Squirrel, Tamiops rodolphii
- Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel, Tamiops swinhoei
References [edit]
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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