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Fraternal Squirrel

Sundasciurus fraterculus

Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Sundasciurus
IUCN status
VU
Distribution
Indonesia
Realm
Indomalaya

About this species

Range
Endemic to the Mentawai Islands (Siberut, Sipora, North and South Pagai)

The fraternal squirrel is a tree squirrel endemic to Indonesia, found only in the Mentawai Archipelago (Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai) off the west coast of Sumatra (Wikipedia, general species account).

Description: Wildlife of Sumatra guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

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