单词 | tupaia |
释义 | Tupaian. Zoology. A genus of insectivorous mammals, typical of the family Tupaiidæ, including the Banxring, Tupaia peguana, of Burma (Myanmar) and Pegu, and the Tana tupai, Tupaia tana, of Borneo, etc. (sometimes erroneously called the Tana). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Scandentia (tree-shrews) > [noun] > genus Tupaia (tree-shrew) Tupaia1820 banxring1824 tree-shrew1893 1820 Sir T. S. Raffles in Linnæan Trans. (1822) XIII. 256 Tupaia... Snout elongated... Habit and tail of a Squirrel. 1820 Sir T. S. Raffles in Linnæan Trans. (1822) XIII. 257 Tupaia Tana. 1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Res. Java at Tupaia The Bangsring fell under my observation during an early period of my researches in Java. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §179 The last family..Tupaidae, at present contains only one genus, the Tupaia or Banxring..of which only three species are known. 1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. xxx. 428 The Tupaias and some of the snouted~shrews. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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