Tupaia (mammal)

Tupaia
Pygmy treeshrew
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Scandentia
Family: Tupaiidae
Genus: Tupaia
Raffles, 1821
Type species
Tupaia ferruginea
Raffles, 1821
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Chladobates Schinz, 1824
  • Cladobates F. Cuvier, 1825
  • Gladobates Schinz, 1824
  • Glipora Jentink, 1888
  • Glirisorex Scudder, 1882
  • Glisorex Desmarest, 1822
  • Glisosorex Giebel, 1855
  • Hylogale Temminck, 1827
  • Hylogalea Schlegel and Mueller, 1843
  • Lyonogale Conisbee, 1953
  • Palaeotupaia Chopra and Vasishat, 1979
  • Sorex-glis É. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 1822
  • Tana Lyon, 1913
  • Tapaia Gray, 1860
  • Tupaja Haeckel, 1866
  • Tupaya É. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 1822

Tupaia is a treeshrew genus in the family Tupaiidae that was first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1821.