Southern Palawan tree squirrel
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Sundasciurus |
| Species: | S. steerii
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| Sundasciurus steerii (Günther, 1877)
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The Southern Palawan Tree Squirrel (Sundasciurus steerii) (local name "bising") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Two nematodes were discovered in 1967 when researching the Southern Palawan Tree Squirrel, they were named Brevistriata sundasciuri and Calypsostrongylus.
References
[edit]- ^ Ong, P.; Balete, D.; Heaney, L. (2016). "Sundasciurus steerii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T21163A22249713. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T21163A22249713.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Schmidt, G. D., Myers, B. J., & Kuntz, R. E. (1967). Nematode Parasites of Oceanica. I. Brevistriata sundasciuri sp. n. and Calypsostrongylus ogdeni gen. et sp. n. (Heligmosomatidae: Longistriatinae) from Squirrels of Palawan and Taiwan. Journal of Parasitology, 53(3), 613. https://doi.org/10.2307/3276725
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