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SPECIES Tupaia chrysogaster
Author: | Miller, 1903. | Citation: | Smithson. Misc. Coll., 45: 58. | Common Name: | Golden-bellied Treeshrew | Type Locality: | N Pagai Isl, Mentawai Isls. | Distribution: | N and S Pagai Isls, and Sipora (Mentawai Isls, Indonesia). Recorded erroneously from Nias by Lyon (1913:36, 39). | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | A distinctive species readily distinguished from populations of T. glis by pelage coloration and mammae formula. Part of the distinctive endemic mammal fauna of the Mentawai Isls (see account of Leopoldamys siporanus). Does not include siberu and tephrura (from Siberut and the Batu Isls, respectively), synonyms of T. glis. |
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