Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew

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Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew [1]
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The northern smooth-tailed treeshrew from Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam
CITES Appendix II (CITES) [3]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Scandentia
Family: Tupaiidae
Genus: Dendrogale
Species:
D. murina
Binomial name
Dendrogale murina
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Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew range

The northern smooth-tailed treeshrew (Dendrogale murina) is a species of treeshrew in the family Tupaiidae found in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. [2] Their diet primarily consists of invertebrates but rarely includes fruits and plants. [4]

References

  1. Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 105. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  2. 1 2 Timmins, R.J. (2016). "Dendrogale murina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T41490A22278606. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T41490A22278606.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  4. Selig, Keegan R; Sargis, Eric J; Silcox, Mary T (2019-11-01). Scheibe, John (ed.). "The frugivorous insectivores? Functional morphological analysis of molar topography for inferring diet in extant treeshrews (Scandentia)". Journal of Mammalogy: gyz151. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz151 . ISSN   0022-2372.

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