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SPECIES Tupaia moellendorffi
| Author: | Matschie, 1898. | | Citation: | Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 39. | | Common Name: | Calamian Treeshrew | | Type Locality: | Philippines, Culion Isl. | | Distribution: | Calamian Isls (Busuanga, Culion) and Cuyo in the Philippines. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable (as included in T. palawanensis). | | Comments: | The three named forms included here appear more closely-related to each another than any is to T. palawanensis (where they are usually arranged; e.g. Heaney et al., 1998) and I provisionally separate them here as a distinctive complex; see also comments by Lyon (1913). This arrangement is somewhat more consistent with species-boundaries traditionally recognized in squirrels from the Palawan region (see accounts of Sundasciurus). |
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