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 SPECIES Nannosciurus melanotis
 
| Author: | Müller, 1840. |  | Citation: | In Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Zoogd. Indisch. Archipel.: 35 [1840], see comments. |  | Common Name: | Black-eared Squirrel |  | Type Locality: | "Borneo". Restricted to Java by Lyon (1906) and by lectotype designation of Heaney (1985). |  | Distribution: | Sumatra, Java, Borneo, adjacent small islands. |  | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |  | Comments: | This species was further described by Müller and Schlegel, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Mammalia, pp. 87, 88, 98 [1844], pl. 14, fig 4, 5 [1841] (from which this species is often cited). Reviewed by Heaney (1985). |  |  |  | 
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