Tufted pygmy squirrel

Tufted pygmy squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Exilisciurus
Species:	E. whiteheadi
Binomial name
Exilisciurus whiteheadi (Thomas, 1887)

The tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to highland forest in Borneo, where it can be found foraging on tree trunks. The common name of this tiny squirrel refers to its distinctive ear-tufts. It is omnivorous, with its diet consisting of a mix of insects, primarily ants, flakes of tree bark, mosses, and fruit and vegetable matter. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. Meijaard, E. (2016). "Exilisciurus whiteheadi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T8438A22244851. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T8438A22244851.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Phillipps, Quentin (2016-05-10). Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology. Princeton, New Jersey Oxford, United Kingdom: Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-16941-5.

• 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.