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title: "Nilgiri Palm Squirrel"
description: "Funambulus sublineatus — Zoogdieren. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/nilgiri-palm-squirrel
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Nilgiri Palm Squirrel

> Funambulus sublineatus — Zoogdieren. The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India.

- Scientific name: *Funambulus sublineatus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 115
- Wikidata: [Q308491](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308491)
- iNaturalist taxon: [45935](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/45935)

## Names

- en: Nilgiri Palm Squirrel
- de: Dunkles Palmenhörnchen
- es: Ardilla listada de Nilgiri
- pl: Pasecznik ciemny

## Countries with the most observations

IN (80)

## Summary

The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India. It formerly included Funambulus obscurus from Sri Lanka as a subspecies, at which point the English name of the "combined species" also was dusky striped squirrel (a name now restricted to the Sri Lankan species).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_striped_squirrel

## Photo

![Nilgiri Palm Squirrel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/nilgiri-palm-squirrel/medium.jpg)

Photo: (text) Adolphe Delessert · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FunambulusSublineatus.jpg

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/nilgiri-palm-squirrel?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).