Tupaia
Taxonavigation
Familia: Tupaiidae
Genus: Tupaia
Species (18):
T. belangeri –
T. chrysogaster –
T. dorsalis –
T. everetti –
T. ferruginea –
T. glis –
T. gracilis –
T. hypochrysa –
T. javanica –
T. longipes –
T. minor –
T. montana –
T. nicobarica –
T. palawanensis –
T. picta –
T. salatana –
T. splendidula –
T. tana
Name
Tupaia Raffles, 1821
- Type species: Tupaia ferruginea Raffles, 1821
Synonyms
- Chladobates Schinz, 1824
- Cladobates F. Cuvier, 1825
- Gladobates Schinz, 1824
- Glipora Jentink, 1888
- Glirisorex Scudder, 1882
- Glisorex Desmarest, 1822
- Glisosorex Giebel, 1855
- Hylogale Temminck, 1827
- Hylogalea Schlegel & Müller, 1843
- Lyonogale Conisbee, 1953
- Sorex-glis É. Geoffroy & F. Cuvier, 1822
- Tana Lyon, 1913
- Tapaia Gray, 1860
- Tupaja Haeckel, 1866
- Tupaya É. Geoffroy & F. Cuvier, 1822
- Urogale Mearns, 1905
- Authority for current placement: Roberts et al., 2011: 369 ('we hereby formally propose the subsumption of Urogale into Tupaia')
- Type species: Urogale cylindrura Mearns, 1905 [=Tupaia everetti Thomas, 1892]
- Fixation: original designation [p. 435] [and monotypy]
References
Primary references
- Raffles, T.S. 1821. Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and its Vicinity, under the Direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough; with additional Notices illustrative of the Natural History of those Countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13 pt. 1: 239–274 BHL; pt. 2: 277–340 BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- Mearns, E.A. 1905: Descriptions of new genera and species of mammals from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 28: 425–460. BHL
- Roberts, T.E.; Lanier, H.C.; Sargis, E.J.; Olson, L.E. 2011: Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 60(3): 358–372. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.021
- Tupaia in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. - Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 13: 256.
- Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.