Tupaiidae

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title: "Tupaiidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["treeshrews", "mammal-families", "taxa-named-by-john-edward-gray"] description: "Family of mammals" topic_path: "general/treeshrews" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaiidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of mammals ::

| name = Tupaiidae | image = Tupaia cf javanica 050917 manc.jpg | image_caption = Tupaia in West Java, Indonesia | taxon = Tupaiidae | authority = Gray, 1825 | type_genus = Tupaia | type_genus_authority = Raffles, 1821 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * Anathana

• Dendrogale
• Palaeotupaia
• Prodendrogale
• Sivatupaia
• Tupaia | range_map = Tupaiidae range.jpg | range_map_caption = Red: Tupaia, Green: Anathana, Blue: Dendrogale, Purple: both Dendrogale and Tupaia | synonyms = * Cladobatae
• Cladobatidina
• Cladobatida
• Cladobatina
• Glisoricina
• Glisoricinae
• Tupaina
• Tupaiadae
• Tupajidae
• Tupayae
• Tupayidae

Tupaiidae is one of two families of treeshrews, the other family being Ptilocercidae. The family contains three living genera and 19 living species.

Unlike shrews, they possess a fairly large brain for their size. While some research has found treeshrews as the closest living relative to primates, most molecular studies currently find the flying lemurs (colugos) as the sister group to primates despite their gliding specializations.

Taxonomy

• Genus Anathana
  • Madras treeshrew, A. ellioti
• Genus Dendrogale
  • Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew, D. melanura
  • Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew, D. murina
• Genus Tupaia
  • Northern treeshrew, T. belangeri
  • Golden-bellied treeshrew, T. chrysogaster
  • Striped treeshrew, T. dorsalis
  • Mindanao treeshrew, T. everetti
  • Common treeshrew, T. glis
  • Slender treeshrew, T. gracilis
  • Horsfield's treeshrew, T. javanica
  • Long-footed treeshrew, T. longipes
  • Pygmy treeshrew, T. minor
  • Calamian treeshrew, T. moellendorffi
  • Mountain treeshrew, T. montana
  • Nicobar treeshrew, T. nicobarica
  • Palawan treeshrew, T. palawanensis
  • Painted treeshrew, T. picta
  • Ruddy treeshrew, T. splendidula
  • Large treeshrew, T. tana

Conservation

A majority of the species, 71.4%, in this family are of least concern, according to the IUCN red list. Nearly a twentieth of the species, 4.8%, are vulnerable and the same number are endangered. 19% of the species have not had enough data collected yet for them to be rated on the scale.

References

References

1. {{MSW3 Scandentia
2. (2012). "Tupaiine tree shrews (Scandentia, Mammalia) from the Yuanmou Lufengpithecus locality of Yunnan, China". [[Swiss Journal of Palaeontology]].
3. (2022). "A new genus of treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur District, Jammu and Kashmir, India". Journal of Paleontology.
4. (2011). "Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
5. (2007). "Molecular and genomic data identify the closest living relative of the primates". Science.
6. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species".

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