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Natuna squirrel
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Sundasciurus
Species:	S. natunensis
Binomial name
	Sundasciurus natunensis; (Thomas, 1895)

The Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Natuna Islands of Indonesia. This species first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1895 in a paper titled "Revised determinations of three of the Natuna rodents", where he described it as a subspecies of Sundasciurus lowii. It was recognized as a distinct species in 2020.^[1]

References

^ Hinckley, Arlo; Hawkins, Melissa T. R.; Achmadi, Anang S.; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Leonard, Jennifer A. (2020). "Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00208. hdl:10261/218047. ISSN 2296-701X.

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[1] Hinckley, Arlo; Hawkins, Melissa T. R.; Achmadi, Anang S.; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Leonard, Jennifer A. (2020). "Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00208. hdl:10261/218047. ISSN 2296-701X.

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