Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Tamiops > Tamiops mcclellandiiTamiops mcclellandii (Himalayan striped squirrel)Synonyms: Tamiops macclellandi The Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii), also known as western striped squirrel, or Burmese striped squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It lives in a variety of forest from tropical to subtropical in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. This species is diurnal, arboreal and feeds on fruits, vegetable matter, and insects. It often seen in small groups and use tree holes for shelter. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 55.5 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Arboreal [2] | 100 % | | | Litter Size [3] | 2 | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 5 inches (13 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Indochina dry forests |
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests |
Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests |
Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests |
Myanmar, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Indochina mangroves |
Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Irrawaddy dry forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Kayah-Karen montane rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
Bangladesh, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Luang Prabang montane rain forests |
Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Meghalaya subtropical forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests |
Myanmar, India, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Myanmar Coast mangroves |
India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Myanmar coastal rain forests |
Myanmar, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests |
India, Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Northern Indochina subtropical forests |
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests |
Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests |
Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle subtropical forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle temperate forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests |
Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests |
Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian rain forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Mountains of Southwest China |
China, Myanmar |
No |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
No |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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