Natuna squirrel

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| genus = Sundasciurus

| species = natunensis

| authority = (Thomas, 1895)

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The Natuna squirrel (Sundasciurus natunensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Natuna Islands of Indonesia. This species first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1895 in a paper titled "Revised determinations of three of the Natuna rodents", where he described it as a subspecies of Sundasciurus lowii. It was recognized as a distinct species in 2020.{{Cite journal |last1=Hinckley |first1=Arlo |last2=Hawkins |first2=Melissa T. R. |last3=Achmadi |first3=Anang S. |last4=Maldonado |first4=Jesús E. |last5=Leonard |first5=Jennifer A. |date=2020 |title=Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=8 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2020.00208 |doi-access=free |issn=2296-701X|hdl=10261/218047 |hdl-access=free }}

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