Painted treeshrew
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| Species: | T. picta
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| Tupaia picta[2] Thomas, 1892
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The painted treeshrew (Tupaia picta) is a treeshrew species of the family Tupaiidae.[2] It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits the forested lowlands of Brunei, Kalimantan, and Sarawak.[1] Its diet consists mainly of fruits and insects.
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]
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN
- ^ 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.
- ^ Thomas, O. (1892). On some new Mammalia from the East-Indian Archipelago. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 (9): 250–254.
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