1) Family tupaiidae 2) Mammal family 3) Tree shrews 
The Tupaiidae are one of two families of treeshrews, the other family being Ptilocercidae. The family contains four genera and 19 species. The family name derives from `tupai`, the Malay word for treeshrew and also for squirrel which Tupaiidae superficially resemble. ==Taxonomy== ...
<zoology> 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 tr...
[n] - tree shrews
family Tupaiidae noun tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates