Mountain Treeshrew
Tupaia montana
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 114
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae. It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia, and Kalimantan, Indonesia, as well as a part of southeastern Brunei. The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mountain treeshrew”.