Tupaia salatana is recorded in southern Borneo. The IUCN account reports reliance on natural forest as well as records from natural remnants within plantations.
Lyon's 1913 description of southern Bornean specimens notes reddish shoulders and a clove-brown lower back and tail.
The IUCN account reports reliance on natural forest, but also records in natural remnants amid plantations and regrowth. The treeshrew forages on the ground for ants and termites and nests in ground holes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.