"Tupaiidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The only family of the order SCANDENTIA, variously included in the order Insectivora or in the order Primates, and often in the order Microscelidea, consisting of five genera. They are TUPAIA, Ananthana (Indian tree shrew), Dendrogale (small smooth-tailed tree shrew), Urogale (Mindanao tree shrew), and Ptilocercus (pen-tailed tree shrew). The tree shrews inhabit the forest areas of eastern Asia from India and southwestern China to Borneo and the Philippines.
| Descriptor ID |
D014418
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.875.770
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| Concept/Terms |
Tupaiidae- Tupaiidae
- Treeshrews
- Treeshrew
- Shrews, Tree
- Shrew, Tree
- Tree Shrew
- Tree Shrews
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