Family Tupaiidae Gray 1825 (tree shrew)
Mammalia - Insectivora - Tupaiidae
Alternative spelling: Tupaeidae
Parent taxon: Menotyphla according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Carroll 1988, Chopra and Vasishat 1979, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Gunnell 1989, Helgen 2005, Ni and Qiu 2012, Nowak 1991, Qiu 1986, Schlosser 1877, Tong 1988 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Adapisoriculinae Anathana Dendrogale Eodendrogale Ptilocercinae Ptilocercus Tupaiinae
Ecology: scansorial insectivore-frugivore
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