Black giant squirrel
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The Malayan or black giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) is a large tree squirrel (family Sciuridae) native to the Indomalayan zootope. It is found in tropical forests from northern Bangladesh, northeastern India, Odisha, India, eastern Nepal and Bhutan, to Myanmar and southern China (including Hainan), south through mainland Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Western Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam), as well as several Indonesian islands and provinces (mainly Bali, Java and Sumatra).[1]
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Malayan black giant squirrel | |
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Above in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand; below in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Ratufa |
Species: | R. bicolor |
Binomial name | |
Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778) | |
Subspecies[3] | |
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Black giant squirrel range (erroneously missing Java and Bali) | |
Synonyms | |
Tennentii, source: Layard, in Blyth, 1849 |
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