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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Scandentia — thetreeshrews and related animals.
Etymologies
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Family Species Sorcidae Crocidura nicobarica* Tupaiidae Tupaia nicobarica* Pteropodidae Pteropus faunulus* Muridae Rattus palmarum** An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregioThe isolation of the Nicobars has given rise to a number of endemic plant and animal species.
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A* Sciuridae Sundasciurus hoogstraali* Sciuridae Sundasciurus juvencus* Tupaiidae Tupaia palawanensis* An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
Palawan rain forests 2008
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Family Species Tupaiidae* Dendrogale murina* Muridae Maxomys moi Cercopithecidae Pygathrix nemaeus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
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They are large enough to remind people of diminutive squirrels, so they are sometimes called "squirrel-shrews" and are placed in the Family Tupaiidae (tyoo-pay'ih-dee; from a Malay word for "squirrel").
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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_Tupaiidae_, and therefore it may appropriately be placed here.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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