Funambulus

Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family. It contains these species:[1][2][3]

• Genus Funambulus
  • Subgenus Funambulus
    • Layard's palm squirrel (F. layardi)
    • Indian palm squirrel (F. palmarum)
    • Nilgiri striped palm squirrel (F. sublineatus)[4]
    • Dusky palm squirrel (F. obscurus)
    • Jungle palm squirrel (F. tristriatus)
  • Subgenus Prasadsciurus
    • Northern palm squirrel (F. pennantii)

Funambulus
Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Callosciurinae
Genus:	Funambulus Lesson, 1835
Species
Funambulus layardi Funambulus palmarum Funambulus pennantii Funambulus sublineatus Funambulus obscurus Funambulus tristriatus
Synonyms
Palmista Gray, 1867 Tamiodes Pocock, 1923

References

1. 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.
2. Funambulus, MSW3
3. Dissanayake, Rajith; Oshida, Tatsuo (2012). "The systematics of the dusky striped squirrel, Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and its relationships to Layard's squirrel, Funambulus layardi Blyth, 1849" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (1–2): 91–116. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.626126.
4. Rajith Dissanayake. 2012. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus), and the dusky striped squirrel (Funambulus obscurus), two additions to the endemic mammal fauna of India and Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7