Ratufa macroura (Pennant, 1769) . Indian Zool., 1, pl. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Ceylon and Malabar.... Malacca ...Goa and Amboina." Restricted by Phillips (1933) to highlands of Central and Uva Provs., Sri Lanka .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka and S India.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: albipes (Blyth, 1859); ceilonensis (Boddaert, 1785); ceylonica (Erxleben, 1777); dandolena Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; macrura Blanford, 1891; melanochra Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; montana (Kalaart, 1852); sinhala Phillips, 1931; tennentii (Layard, 1849); zeylanicus (Ray, 1693).