Funambulus

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =

| image = Indian Palm Squirrel (Funambulus palmarum).jpg

| image_caption = Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)

| taxon = Funambulus

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Lesson, 1835

| parent_authority = Pocock, 1923

| type_species = Sciurus indicus

| type_species_authority = Lesson, 1835
(= Sciurus palmarum Linnaeus, 1776)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Funambulus layardi

Funambulus palmarum

Funambulus pennantii

Funambulus sublineatus

Funambulus obscurus

Funambulus tristriatus

| synonyms = *Palmista J. E. Gray, 1867

• Tamiodes Pocock, 1923

}}

File:Finny the funambulus.jpg

Funambulus is a genus of rodents in the Sciuridae (squirrel) family, the only one in tribe Funambulini.{{MSW3|id=12400566}} It contains these species:[https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400566 Funambulus], MSW3{{cite journal|last1=Dissanayake|first1=Rajith|last2=Oshida|first2=Tatsuo|title=The systematics of the dusky striped squirrel, Funambulus sublineatus (Waterhouse, 1838) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and its relationships to Layard's squirrel, Funambulus layardi Blyth, 1849|journal=Journal of Natural History|date=2012|volume=46|issue=1–2|pages=91–116|doi=10.1080/00222933.2011.626126|bibcode=2012JNatH..46...91D |url=https://zenodo.org/record/999860}}

• Genus Funambulus
• Subgenus Funambulus
• Layard's palm squirrel (F. layardi)
• Dusky palm squirrel (F. obscurus)
• Indian palm squirrel (F. palmarum)
• Nilgiri striped palm squirrel (F. sublineatus)Rajith Dissanayake. 2012. [http://www.zoosprint.org/ZoosPrintNewsLetter/SMM_4_1_Jul-Dec_2011.pdf#page=6 The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus), and the dusky striped squirrel (Funambulus obscurus), two additions to the endemic mammal fauna of India and Sri Lanka.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313225002/http://www.zoosprint.org/ZoosPrintNewsLetter/SMM_4_1_Jul-Dec_2011.pdf#page=6 |date=2016-03-13 }} Small Mammal Mail. Vol 3(2):6-7
• Jungle palm squirrel (F. tristriatus)
• Subgenus Prasadsciurus
• Northern palm squirrel (F. pennantii)