Montane Long-nosed Squirrel

Montane Long-nosed Squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Hyosciurus
Species:	H. heinrichi
Binomial name
Hyosciurus heinrichi Archbold & Tate, 1935

The Montane Long-nosed Squirrel (Hyosciurus heinrichi) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It was discovered during a 1930 expedition led by Gerd Heinrich.^[2]

References

1. ^ Ruedas, L. (2008). Hyosciurus heinrichii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
2. ^ Bernd Heinrich, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (2007), p. 92. ISBN 978-0-06-074215-7

• Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.