Tupaia

Tupaia belangeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scandentia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Grandordo: Euarchonta Ordo: Scandentia

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.