Nilgiri striped squirrel
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"Funambulus sublineatus" redirects here. For the similar Sri Lankan squirrel now called dusky striped squirrel, see Funambulus obscurus.
The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India. It formerly included Funambulus obscurus from Sri Lanka as a subspecies, at which point the English name of the "combined species" also was dusky striped squirrel (a name now restricted to the Sri Lankan species).
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Nilgiri striped squirrel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Funambulus |
Species: | F. sublineatus |
Binomial name | |
Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) | |
Subspecies[2] | |
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Synonyms | |
Sciurus delesserti Gervais, 1841 |
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