Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869) . 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] .

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).