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Tupaia montana (Mountain Treeshrew; Mountain Tree Shrew)

Wikipedia Abstract

The mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species of the family Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah. The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
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Infraspecies

Tupaia montana baluensis (Mountain tree shrew)
Tupaia montana montana (Mountain tree shrew)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.21
EDGE Score: 2.65
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  283 grams
Birth Weight [2]  11 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  90 %
Diet - Plants [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  50 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  7 inches (19 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Borneo lowland rain forests Indonesia, Malaysia Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Borneo montane rain forests Indonesia, Malaysia Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Borneo peat swamp forests Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Kinabalu montane alpine meadows Malaysia Indo-Malayan Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Sunda Shelf mangroves Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Indo-Malayan Mangroves

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gunung Niut Wildlife Reserve Nature Reserve IV 409109 Kalimantan, Indonesia  
Sungai Kayan Sungai Mentarang National Park II 3361869 Indonesia      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand Yes

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cratynius audyi[4]
Lentistivalius mjoebergi[4]
Lentistivalius vomerus[4]
Macrostylophora borneensis[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0