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Ursus thibetanus G. Cuvier 1823

Description

Ursus thibetanus G. Cuvier, 1823. Rech. Oss. Foss., 4: 325.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Sylhet.

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan; Pakistan; N. India; China; S.E. Primorsky Krai (U.S. S. R.); Korea; Japan; Indochina.

COMMENT: Placed in genus Ursus, subgenus Selenarctos by Gromov and Baranova, 1981:249; and in subgenus Euarctos by Thenius, 1979:293. Stains, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 331; Corbet, 1978:165; and Hendey, 1980:98, considered it a distinct genus, Selenarctos.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Selenarctos thibetanus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002004001001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
G. Cuvier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Ursidae
Genus
Ursus
Species
thibetanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ursus thibetanus Cuvier, 1823 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
  • Thenius, E. 1979. Zur systematischen und phylogenetischen Stellung des Bambusbaren: Ailuropoda melanoleuca David (Carnivora, Mammalia). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 44 (5): 286 - 305.
  • Stains, H. J. 1967. Carnivores, Pp. 325 - 354, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 453 pp.