himalayan striped squirrel

[inneshealy]

Hi,

a petshop near me is offering one of these for sale, are they legal in S.A.? I cant find anything on the web on captive care for them has anyone ever heard of them before is it possibly a different species to what is being claimed? And how do they fair in captivity? Any ideas?

[najarw]

Tamiops macclellandi
http://www.iucnredlist.org/search
iucn has it as least concern, the rest would be the legality of the import.