Tamiops minshanica
Tamiops minshanica, the Minshan striped squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. A type of Asiatic striped squirrel that had previously not been assigned morphologically to any described species, it was discovered in 2018 in Wanglang National Natural Reserve, Sichuan, China. It was formally described and assigned in 2022.[1]
| Tamiops minshanica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Tamiops |
| Species: | T. minshanica |
| Binomial name | |
| Tamiops minshanica Liu et al., 2022 | |
References
- Liu, Shaoying; Tang, Mingkun; Murphy, Robert W.; Liu, Yinxun; Wang, Xuming; Wan, Tao; Liao, Rui; Tang, Keyi; Qing, Jiao; Chen, Shunde; Li, Song (2022-03-21). "A new species of Tamiops (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from Sichuan, China". Zootaxa. 5116 (3): 301–333. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5116.3.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 35391332.
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