Nilgiri Palm Squirrel
Funambulus sublineatus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 56
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇳 India
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India. It formerly included Funambulus obscurus from Sri Lanka as a subspecies, at which point the English name of the "combined species" also was dusky striped squirrel (a name now restricted to the Sri Lankan species).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Nilgiri striped squirrel”.