Funambulus palmarum (Linnaeus, 1766)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 426

Funambulus palmarum (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:86.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in America, Asia, Africa." Restricted by Wroughton (1905«:409) to E coast of Madras, India .

DISTRIBUTION: C and S India, Sri Lanka.

SYNONYMS: bellaricus Wroughton, 1916; bengalensis Wroughton, 1916; brodiei (Blyth, 1849); comorinus Wroughton, 1905; favonicus Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; gossei Wroughton and Davidson, 1919; indicus (Lesson, 1835, not Erxleben, 1777); kelaarti (Layard, 1851); matugamensis Lindsay, 1926; olympius Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; penicillatus (Leach, 1814); robertsoni Wroughton, 1916.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Funambulus . Distribution largely allopatric with that of F. pennantii , but limited area of sympatry along W coast of India, south of 16° N lat. ( Moore, 1960).