Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 336

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scientific name	Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869)
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869) View in CoL . Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull., 5:12 -13.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Mou-pin" [ China, Sichuan Sheng, Baoxing (=Moupin) 30°23'N, 102°50'E] GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: China: Sichuan, Shensi, Gansu; perhaps Qinghai, on E edge of Tibetan plateau.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Regarded by Hendey (1980«, b) as the only surviving species in the subfamily Agriotheriinae . Placed in the monotypic family Ailuropodidae by Thenius (1979). Reviewed by Chorn and Hoffmann (1978, Mammalian Species, 110).