The Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Natuna Islands of Indonesia. This species first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1895 in a paper titled "Revised determinations of three of the Natuna rodents", where he described it as a subspecies of Sundasciurus lowii. It was recognized as a distinct species in 2020.[1]

Natuna squirrel
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sundasciurus
Species:
S. natunensis
Binomial name
Sundasciurus natunensis
(Thomas, 1895)

References

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  1. ^ Hinckley, Arlo; Hawkins, Melissa T. R.; Achmadi, Anang S.; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Leonard, Jennifer A. (2020). "Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00208. hdl:10261/218047. ISSN 2296-701X.