Paradoxurus, Groves & Rajapaksha & Manemandra-Arachchi, 2009

Groves, Colin P., Rajapaksha, Channa & Manemandra-Arachchi, Kelum, 2009, The taxonomy of the endemic golden palm civet of Sri Lanka, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (1), pp. 238-251 : 250

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00451.x

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B287D8-FFC0-5371-30EE-7782FDC6FF27

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Felipe

scientific name

Paradoxurus
status

sp. nov.

PARADOXURUS View in CoL SP. NOV.?

BM 77.11 .1.3 and 77.11.1.4: these two specimens, presented by Whyte , and ticketed ‘ Ceylon, confined to the Hills’ , are different from any other specimens, as described above. We have suggested (above) that the locality may be in the Dickoya region at the eastern end of the Bogawantalawa valley, but until further evidence becomes available, it is impossible to contemplate describing a further species .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

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