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Bornean mountain ground squirrel

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ308784 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Sundasciurus everetti) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.

References

Hawkins, M.T.R., Helgen, K.M., Maldonado, J.E., Rockwood, L.L., Tsuchiya, M.T.N., Leonard, J.A. 2016. Phylogeny, biogeography and systematic revision of plain long-nosed squirrels (genus Dremomys, Nannosciurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 752-764

Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp.

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“Bornean mountain ground squirrel” enters the record as species of mammal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bornean, mountain and ground can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bornean mountain ground squirrel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.