Funambulus

Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family, the only one in tribe Funambulini.^[1] It contains these species:^[2][3]

• Genus Funambulus
  • Subgenus Funambulus
    • Layard's palm squirrel (F. layardi)
    • Dusky palm squirrel (F. obscurus)
    • Indian palm squirrel (F. palmarum)
    • Nilgiri striped palm squirrel (F. sublineatus)^[4]
    • Jungle palm squirrel (F. tristriatus)
  • Subgenus Prasadsciurus
    • Northern palm squirrel (F. pennantii)

Funambulus
Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Callosciurinae
Tribe:	Funambulini Pocock, 1923
Genus:	Funambulus Lesson, 1835
Type species
Sciurus indicus
Species
Funambulus layardi Funambulus palmarum Funambulus pennantii Funambulus sublineatus Funambulus obscurus Funambulus tristriatus
Synonyms
Palmista Gray, 1867 Tamiodes Pocock, 1923

A squirrel apparently appearing to give a thumbs up but is actually eating maize grain.

Etymology

"Funambulus" is the Latin word for "rope-dancer".^[5]

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Funambulus, MSW3
3. Dissanayake, Rajith; Oshida, Tatsuo (2012). "The systematics of the dusky striped squirrel, Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and its relationships to Layard's squirrel, Funambulus layardi Blyth, 1849" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (1–2): 91–116. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.626126.
4. Rajith Dissanayake. 2012. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus), and the dusky striped squirrel (Funambulus obscurus), two additions to the endemic mammal fauna of India and Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7
5. Simpson, D.P. (2002). Cassell's Latin English Dictionary (Reprint ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-02-013340-7.