Back راتوفا ذو لونين ARZ Werpol (Ratufa bicolor) AVK Черна гигантска катерица Bulgarian রাম কোটা Bengali/Bangla Gwiñver meur du Breton Crna velika vjeverica BS Esquirol gegant negre Catalan Ratufa bicolor CEB Schwarzes Riesenhörnchen German Ratufa bicolor Spanish
| Malayan black giant squirrel | |
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| Above in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand; below in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Ratufa |
| Species: | R. bicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778)
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| Black giant squirrel range (erroneously missing Java and Bali) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tennentii, source: Layard, in Blyth, 1849 | |
The black giant squirrel or Malayan giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa native to the Indomalayan zootope. It is found in forests from northern Bangladesh, northeast India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, West Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and western Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Bali and nearby small islands).[1]
- ^ a b Duckworth, J.W.; Molur, S. (2016). "Ratufa bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T19377A22261810. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T19377A22261810.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Thorington, R.W. Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Ratufa bicolor". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 754–818. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 26158608.