Berdmore's ground squirrel
Berdmore's ground squirrel Temporal range: Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Conservation status | |
![]() Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Callosciurinae |
Genus: | Menetes Thomas, 1908 |
Species: | M. berdmorei |
Binomial name | |
Menetes berdmorei (Blyth, 1849) | |
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Synonyms | |
Sciurus berdmorei Blyth, 1849 |
Berdmore's ground squirrel, Indochinese ground squirrel, or Berdmore's squirrel (Menetes berdmorei) is a ground squirrel found in Southeast Asia, from the east of Myanmar and Yunnan (southern China) to Vietnam and Cambodia.[1]
The squirrel has a grey-brown back and a white belly. Most striking are stripes on the side - on each side one beige and below a black stripe. The head is pointy, so this squirrel resembles a mouse or a treeshrew. Its length is 20 cm (7.9 in), not including the 15 cm (5.9 in) long tail.[citation needed]
As a ground squirrel, it is rarely found on trees, but spends most of the time in the thick underwoods of the rainforests. However, it is also found in fields or villages, especially in rice fields it is sometimes omnipresent.[citation needed] Despite it being quite common only very little is known about the life of this squirrel. Despite its name, it is not a close relative of the ground squirrels of the tribe Marmotini
References
- ^ a b Duckworth, J.W. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Menetes berdmorei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T13144A115109552. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T13144A22269758.en. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha
- Ear-spot squirrel (Callosciurus adamsi)
- Kloss's squirrel (Callosciurus albescens)
- Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis)
- Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
- Pallas's squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)
- Finlayson's squirrel (Callosciurus finlaysonii)
- Hon Khoai squirrel (Callosciurus honkhoaiensis)
- Inornate squirrel (Callosciurus inornatus)
- Mentawai squirrel (Callosciurus melanogaster)
- Black-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus)
- Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes)
- Phayre's squirrel (Callosciurus phayrei)
- Prevost's squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)
- Irrawaddy squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythrus)
- Anderson's squirrel (Callosciurus quinquestriatus)
(Red-cheeked squirrels)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti)
- Red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis)
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
- Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi)
- Red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis)
- Philippine pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus concinnus)
- Least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi)
- Subgenus Funambulus: Layard's palm squirrel (Funambulus layardi)
- Dusky palm squirrel (Funambulus obscurus)
- Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
- Nilgiri palm squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus)
- Jungle palm squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus)
- Subgenus Prasadsciurus: Northern palm squirrel (Funambulus pennantii)
- Sculptor squirrel (Glyphotes simus)
- Montane long-nosed squirrel (Hyosciurus heinrichi)
- Lowland long-nosed squirrel (Hyosciurus ileile)
(striped ground squirrels)
- Four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei)
- Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
- Niobe ground squirrel (Lariscus niobe)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel (Lariscus obscurus)
- Berdmore's ground squirrel (Menetes berdmorei)
- Black-eared squirrel (Nannosciurus melanotis)
- Secretive dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus abstrusus)
- Alston's Sulawesi dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus alstoni)
- Whitish dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus leucomus)
- Celebes dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus murinus)
- Sanghir squirrel (Prosciurillus rosenbergii)
- Roux's Sulawesi dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus topapuensis)
- Weber's dwarf squirrel (Prosciurillus weberi)
- Shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus)
- Red-bellied squirrel (Rubrisciurus rubriventer)
- Subgenus Aletesciurus: Davao squirrel (Sundasciurus davensis)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Sundasciurus everetti)
- Horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus juvencus)
- Mindanao squirrel (Sundasciurus mindanensis)
- Culion tree squirrel (Sundasciurus moellendorffi)
- Philippine tree squirrel (Sundasciurus philippinensis)
- Palawan montane squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori)
- Samar squirrel (Sundasciurus samarensis)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii)
- Subgenus Sundasciurus: Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei)
- Fraternal squirrel (Sundasciurus fraterculus)
- Jentink's squirrel (Sundasciurus jentinki)
- Low's squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii)
- Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis)
- Robinson's squirrel (Sundasciurus robinsoni)
- Upland squirrel (Sundasciurus tahan)
- Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis)
- Subgenus incertae sedis:
- Sumatran mountain squirrel (Sundasciurus altitudinis)
(Asiatic striped squirrels)
- Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
- Maritime striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus)
- Cambodian striped squirrel (Tamiops rodolphii)
- Swinhoe's striped squirrel (Tamiops swinhoei)
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