Muntiacus vaginalis (Boddaert, 1785)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 187

323. Muntiacus vaginalis (Boddaert, 1785)

Common name: Northern Red Muntjac

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. In Myanmar, widely distributed and recorded in most of the PAs and RF.

Remarks: M. vaginalis is considered as a subspecies of M. muntjac; however, by their distribution range, the muntjac species in Myanmar could be identified as M. vaginalis ( Zhang et al. 2021) . In Myanmar, presence is uncertain as the red muntjac of Myanmar is identified as “ northern red muntjac M. vaginalis ” ( Zhang et al. 2021); however, possibly distributed in southern Tanintharyi Region (Proposed Lenya NP and its extension; Grindley 2019). This species is listed as a seasonally protected species of Myanmar.