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Funambulus
Genus of rodents
Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family, the only one in tribe Funambulini. It contains these species:
- Genus Funambulus
- Subgenus Funambulus
- Layard's palm squirrel (F. layardi), Sri Lanka
- Dusky palm squirrel (F. obscurus), Sri Lanka
- Indian palm squirrel (F. palmarum), Sri Lanka and mainland South Asia
- Nilgiri striped palm squirrel (F. sublineatus), southern Western Ghats
- Jungle palm squirrel (F. tristriatus), southern India, mostly Western Ghats
- Subgenus Prasadsciurus
- Northern palm squirrel (F. pennantii), most of South Asia (but not the southernmost tip), stretching into the highlands of Pakistan and Iran
- Subgenus Funambulus
01Etymology
"Funambulus" is the Latin word for "rope-dancer".
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