Callosciurus quinquestriatus Anderson 1871

Callosciurus quinquestriatus Anderson 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871: 142.

Type Locality: "common at Ponsee, on the Kakhyen range of hills, east of Bhamo, at an elevation of from 2000 to 3000 ft " [Burma].

Vernacular Names: Anderson's Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Callosciurus quinquestriatus subsp. quinquestriatus Anderson 1871

Subspecies Callosciurus quinquestriatus subsp. imarius Thomas 1926

Distribution: NE Burma, Yunnan (China).

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Included in C. erythraeus by Moore and Tate (1965:209); but this distinctly marked species with a very limited range is sympatric with the more widely distributed C. erythraeus in W Yunnan (Corbet and Hill, 1992:286).