Southern Palawan tree squirrel

Southern Palawan tree squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Sundasciurus
Species:	S. steerii
Binomial name
Sundasciurus steerii (Günther, 1877)

The Southern Palawan Tree Squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii) (local name "bising") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Two nematodes were discovered in 1967 when researching the Southern Palawan Tree Squirrel, they were named Brevistriata sundasciuri and Calypsostrongylus.

References

1. Ong, P.; Balete, D.; Heaney, L. (2016). "Sundasciurus steerii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T21163A22249713. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T21163A22249713.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.

• Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• Schmidt, G. D., Myers, B. J., & Kuntz, R. E. (1967). Nematode Parasites of Oceanica. I. Brevistriata sundasciuri sp. n. and Calypsostrongylus ogdeni gen. et sp. n. (Heligmosomatidae: Longistriatinae) from Squirrels of Palawan and Taiwan. Journal of Parasitology, 53(3), 613. https://doi.org/10.2307/3276725