Ratufa macroura (Pennant 1769)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 757

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scientific name

Ratufa macroura (Pennant 1769)
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[Sciurus] macrourus Pennant 1769 , Indian Zool., Vol. 1: pl. 1.

Type Locality: " Ceylon and Malabar.... Malacca...Goa and Amboina." Restricted by Phillips (1933) to highlands of Central and Uva Provs., Sri Lanka.

Vernacular Names: Sri Lankan Giant Squirrel.

Synonyms: Ratufa zeylanicus (Ray 1693) .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Ratufa macroura subsp. macroura Pennant 1769

Subspecies Ratufa macroura subsp. dandolena Thomas and Wroughton 1915

Subspecies Ratufa macroura subsp. melanochra Thomas and Wroughton 1915

Distribution: Sri Lanka and S India.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992). Joshua (1996) reported apparent hybridization with R. indica , but had no cytogenetic data.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Ratufa

Loc

Ratufa macroura (Pennant 1769)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Sciurus] macrourus

Pennant 1769: pl. 1
1769
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