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Definition: FUNAMBULUS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A ropewalker or ropedancer.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Funambulus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)


Extended Definition: FUNAMBULUS


Funambulus

Funambulus
Fossil range: Recent
Funambulus palmarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Callosciurinae
Tribe: Funambulini
Pocock, 1923
Genus: Funambulus
Lesson, 1835
Species

Funambulus layardi
Funambulus palmarum
Funambulus pennantii
Funambulus sublineatus
Funambulus tristriatus

Funambulus is a genus of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It contains the following species:

  • Genus Funambulus
    • Subgenus Funambulus
      • Layard's Palm Squirrel (Funambulus layardi)
      • Indian Palm Squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
      • Dusky Palm Squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus)
      • Jungle Palm Squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus)
    • Subgenus Prasadsciurus
      • Northern Palm Squirrel (Funambulus pennantii)

References

  • Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Funambulus". Image Credit.



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