Moschus chrysogaster (Hodgson, 1839)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 315-343 : 323

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scientific name	Moschus chrysogaster (Hodgson, 1839)
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Moschus chrysogaster (Hodgson, 1839) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 8:203.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Nepal " (Probably Tibetan Plateau) .

DISTRIBUTION: Wooded slopes of Himalayas in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, S. Tibet, C. andS.E. China (SW).

COMMENT: Formerly included berezovskii ; see Groves, 1975, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 72:662-682. Regarded as separate species by Cai and Feng, 1981, Acta Zootax. Sin., 6: 106-110. According to PG, chrysogaster is the prior name for sifanicus (see below), and the next available name for this species is leucogaster Hodgson, 1839 .

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Moschus spp.

References

Cai Gui-quan, and Feng Zuo-jiang. 1981. [On the occurrence of the Himalayan musk-deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in China and an approach to the systematics of the genus Moschus]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 6: 106 - 110 (in Chinese).