What is Treeshrew?
{{Taxobox | name = Treeshrews | fossil_range = [[Palaeocene]] {{ndash}} present | image = Anathana_ellioti.jpg | image_caption = Madras treeshrew (''Anathana ellioti'') | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | infraclassis = [[Eutheria]] | superordo = [[Euarchontoglires]] | ordo = '''Scandentia''' | ordo_authority = [[Johann Andreas Wagner|Wagner]], 1855 | subdivision_ranks = [[Family (biology)|Families]] | subdivision = *[[Tupaiidae]] *[[Ptilocercidae]] }} A '''treeshrew''' is a small [[mammal]] in the order '''Scandentia'''. They live in the tropical forests of [[Southeast Asia]]. They make up the [[Family (biology)|families]] [[Tupaiidae]] and [[Ptilocercidae]]. There are 20 species in five [[genera]]. Although called treeshrews, they are not true [[shrew]]s, and are not all [[arboreal]]. Among other things, they eat ''[[Rafflesia]]'' fruit. They used to be classified in the [[Insectivora]]. {{-}} {{wikispecies|Scandentia}} {{biology-stub}} [[category:Mammals]]