Montane long-nosed squirrel
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| Montane Long-nosed Squirrel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Hyosciurus |
| Species: | H. heinrichi |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyosciurus heinrichi Archbold & Tate, 1935 |
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The Montane Long-nosed Squirrel (Hyosciurus heinrichi) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It was discovered during a 1930 expedition led by Gerd Heinrich.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ Ruedas, L. (2008). Hyosciurus heinrichii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ^ Bernd Heinrich, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (2007), p. 92. ISBN 978-0-06-074215-7
- 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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