Northern Treeshrew
Tupaia belangeri
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,269
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri) is a treeshrew species native to Southeast Asia. In 1841, the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner first used the specific name Cladobates belangeri for treeshrews that had been collected in Pegu during a French expedition to Southeast Asia. These specimens were described by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1834 in whose opinion they did not differ sufficiently from Tupaia tana to assign a specific rank.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Northern treeshrew”.