Order Scandentia
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
104
109
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Tupaia moellendorffi
Matschie 1898
Tupaia moellendorffi
Matschie 1898
,
Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 39
.
Type Locality:
Philippines
, Culion Isl.
Vernacular Names:
Calamian Treeshrew
.
Subspecies:
:
Subspecies
Tupaia moellendorffi
subsp.
moellendorffi
Matschie 1898
Subspecies
Tupaia moellendorffi
subsp.
busuangae
Sanborn 1952
Subspecies
Tupaia moellendorffi
subsp.
cuyonis
Miller 1910
Distribution:
Calamian Isls (Busuanga, Culion) and Cuyo in the
Philippines
.
Conservation:
CITES
– Appendix II;
IUCN
– Vulnerable (as included in
T. palawanensis
).
Discussion:
The three named forms included here appear more closely-related to each another than any is to
T. palawanensis
(where they are usually arranged; e.g.
Heaney et al., 1998
) and I provisionally separate them here as a distinctive complex; see also comments by
Lyon (1913)
. This arrangement is somewhat more consistent with species-boundaries traditionally recognized in squirrels from the
Palawan region
(see accounts of
Sundasciurus
).