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Tamiops mcclellandii

Description

57. Tamiops mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840)

Common name: Himalayan Striped Squirrel

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Northern Myanmar (recorded in Proposed Imawbum NP, Proposed Mahamyaing WS and possibly distributed in the Central area).

Remarks: The genus name of this taxon was described as Callosciurus in “ Wild Mammals of Myanmar ” (Tun Yin 1993). Six subspecies are recognized: T. m. mcclellandii, T. m. barbei, and possibly T. m. collinus, are considered as subspecies occurred in Myanmar.

Notes

Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 158, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Horsfield
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Tamiops
Species
mcclellandii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tamiops mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840) sec. Thu, Lwin & Quan, 2024

References

  • Tun Yin, U (1993). Wild mammals of Myanmar. U Soe Kyi, Forest Department, Myanmar.