Black giant squirrel

Malayan black giant squirrel
Above in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand; below in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, India

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
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
  • R. b. bicolor
  • R. b. condorensis
  • R. b. felli
  • R. b. gigantea
  • R. b. hainana
  • R. b. leucogenys
  • R. b. melanopepla
  • R. b. palliata
  • R. b. phaeopepla
  • R. b. smithi
Black giant squirrel range (erroneously missing Java and Bali)
Synonyms

Tennentii, source: Layard, in Blyth, 1849

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, 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).

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