The slender treeshrew (''Tupaia gracilis'') is a

treeshrew The treeshrews (or tree shrews or banxrings) are small mammals native to the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia. They make up the entire order Scandentia, which split into two families: the Tupaiidae (19 species, "ordinary" treeshrews) ...

species within the

Tupaiidae Tupaiidae is one of two families of treeshrews, the other family being Ptilocercidae. The family contains three living genera and 19 living species. The family name derives from ''tupai'', the Malay word for treeshrew and also for squirrel which ...

. It is native to

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

and inhabits foremost lowland old forest.

References

Treeshrews Mammals of Brunei Mammals of Indonesia Mammals of Malaysia Mammals of Borneo Mammals described in 1893 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{mammal-stub