Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778)

Cook-Price, Dawn R., Petko, Olga N., Makchai, Sunchai, Artchawakom, Taksin & Suwanwaree, Pongthep, 2025, Mammal diversity survey of Ko Pha-ngan in Surat Thani Province, Thailand, ZooKeys 1229, pp. 77-102 : 77-102

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.118127

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3CBC4C1-F523-43C6-953C-21EF57DBA8F6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14925528

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F0B57C4D-AF7E-502F-9829-CE9C34613648

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778)
status

 

Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778) View in CoL

Fig. 9 Giant black squirrel View Figure 9

Notes.

Three individuals of this species were sighted opportunistically (Table 2 View Table 2 ) in two different human-disturbed forest areas (Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ). Herbivorous and arboreal, this species eats leaves, various fruits, and seeds ( Tongkok et al. 2020). Each occasion this species was sighted was in secluded forest areas between human settlement areas.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Ratufa