Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 437

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scientific name

Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)
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Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777) View in CoL . Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:420.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in India orientali" [ Bombay, India]. Based on "Pennant's Bombay squirrel" ( Moore and Tate, 1965:43) .

DISTRIBUTION: C and S India, excluding central lowlands.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Endangered as R. i. dealbata and R. i. elphinstonei.

SYNONYMS: bengalensis (Blanford, 1897); bombaya ( Boddaert, 1785); centralis Ryley, 1913; dealbata (Blanford, 1897); elphinstoni (Sykes, 1831); malabarica (Scopoli, 1786); maxima (Schreber, 1784); purpureus (Zimmermann, 1777); superans Ryley, 1913.

COMMENTS: Pennant (1771:281) described, but did not name this species, and said it "Inhabits Bombay."

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Ratufa

Loc

Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson 1993
1993
Loc

Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)

Erxleben 1777: 420
1777
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