| Dendrogale | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Scandentia |
| Family: | Tupaiidae |
| Genus: | Dendrogale J. E. Gray, 1848 |
| Type species | |
| Hylogalea murina | |
| Species | |
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Dendrogale is a genus of treeshrew in the family Tupaiidae found in Southeast Asia and Borneo.1 It contains these species:
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew (D. melanura)
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew (D. murina)
Dendrogale diverged from the rest of the Tupaiidae family at 34.77 mya, and is considered the most basal tupaiid genus.2
References
References
- Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Genus Dendrogale". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Youlatos, Dionisios; Karantanis, Nikolaos Evangelos; Panyutina, Aleksandra (November 25, 2015). "Pedal grasping in the northern smooth-tailed treeshrew Dendrogale murina (Tupaiidae, Scandentia): insights for euarchontan pedal evolution". Mammalia. 81 (1): 61–70. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2015-0113. Retrieved April 29, 2024.