Dendrogale

Dendrogale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Scandentia
Family:	Tupaiidae
Genus:	Dendrogale ; J. E. Gray, 1848
Type species
	Hylogalea murina ; Schlegel & S. Müller, 1843
Species
	Dendrogale melanura ; Dendrogale murina ;

Last updated May 29, 2025

Dendrogale is a genus of treeshrew in the family Tupaiidae found in Southeast Asia and Borneo.^[1] It contains these species:

Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew (D. melanura)
Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew (D. murina)

Dendrogale diverged from the rest of the Tupaiidae family at 34.77 mya, and is considered the most basal tupaiid genus.^[2]

References

↑ Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Genus Dendrogale". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
↑ Youlatos, Dionisios; Karantanis, Nikolaos Evangelos; Panyutina, Aleksandra (November 25, 2015). "Pedal grasping in the northern smooth-tailed treeshrew Dendrogale murina (Tupaiidae, Scandentia): insights for euarchontan pedal evolution" . Mammalia. 81 (1): 61–70. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2015-0113 . Retrieved April 29, 2024.

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[MSW3-1] Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Genus Dendrogale". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[2] Youlatos, Dionisios; Karantanis, Nikolaos Evangelos; Panyutina, Aleksandra (November 25, 2015). "Pedal grasping in the northern smooth-tailed treeshrew Dendrogale murina (Tupaiidae, Scandentia): insights for euarchontan pedal evolution" . Mammalia. 81 (1): 61–70. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2015-0113 . Retrieved April 29, 2024.

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