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Tupaia tana (Large Treeshrew; Large Tree Shrew)

Wikipedia Abstract

The large treeshrew (Tupaia tana) is a mammal species of the family Tupaiidae. It is found on Sumatra and adjacent small islands, as well as in the lowlands and hills of Borneo.
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Infraspecies

Tupaia tana banguei (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana besara (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana bunoae (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana cervicalis (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana chrysura (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana kelabit (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana kretami (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana lingae (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana masae (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana nitida (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana paitana (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana sirhassenensis (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana speciosa (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana tana (Large tree shrew)
Tupaia tana utara (Large 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
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  198 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (19 cm)
Weaning [1]  31 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gunung Leuser National Park II 2203368 Sumatra, Indonesia
Gunung Palung National Park II 271203 Kalimantan, Indonesia  
Tabin Wildlife Reserve IV 275051 Sabah, Malaysia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Ficus fulva[4]
Ficus treubii[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Medwayella loncha[5]
Medwayella phangi tana[5]
Medwayella veruta[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 5International 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