Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 561

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Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)
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Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) View in CoL . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 8:279.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, United Prov., between Benares and Hardwar .

DISTRIBUTION: An extensive range from Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into most of Indian Peninsula north to the Terai region of S Nepal; also Sri Lanka (see Bates, 1988).

SYNONYMS: bailwardi , ceylonica , cuvieri , dunni , hardwickei , monticola , otarius , persica , pitmani , scansa, sherrini , taeniurus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Tatera . Revised by Bates (1988), who recognized three distinctive subspecies. Regional reviews of the species include the segments from Arabian Peninsula ( Harrison and Bates, 1991), Iran ( Lay, 1967), Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973), and Pakistan ( Roberts, 1977). This is the only species that Pavlinov et al. (1990) allocated to the genus Tatera , redefining all African species to the genus Gerbilliscus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Tatera

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Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)

Hardwicke 1807: 279
1807
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