Menetes is a monotypic genus containing the single species Menetes berdmorei, Berdmore's ground squirrel, also called the Indochinese ground squirrel, found from eastern Myanmar and China's Yunnan province to Vietnam and Cambodia. It has a grey-brown back and white belly marked with a beige stripe above a black stripe on each side, and a pointed head that resembles a mouse or treeshrew; about 20 centimeters long in the body with a 15 centimeter tail, it lives mostly on the ground in the thick underwood of rainforest but also uses fields, villages, and rice paddies, and is listed as Least Concern. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Living or Extinct Taxonomic Rank In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cambodia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Myanmar, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Vietnam, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ19638307, descriptionView the Source 2. Menetes (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Berdmore's ground squirrel, Indochinese ground squirrel, or Berdmore's squirrel (Menetes berdmorei) is a ground squirrel found in Southeast Asia, from the east of Myanmar and Yunnan (southern China) to Vietnam and Cambodia.
- Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
View the SourceWikidata: Menetes
Wikidata Q818872, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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