| Brooke's squirrel | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Sundasciurus |
| Species: | S. brookei |
| Binomial name | |
| Sundasciurus brookei (Thomas, 1892) | |
Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was named for Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak by Oldfield Thomas from a specimen collected by Charles Hose on Mt Dulit.
References
- Aplin, K. (2016). "Sundasciurus brookei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T21153A22250269. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T21153A22250269.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sundasciurus brookei | |
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