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Ratufa indica
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Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:420.
TYPE LOCALITY: "in India orientali" [Bombay, India]. Based on "Pennant's Bombay squirrel" (Moore and Tate, 1965:43).
DISTRIBUTION: C and S India, excluding central lowlands.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Endangered as R. i. dealbata and R. i. elphinstonei.
SYNONYMS: bengalensis (Blanford, 1897); bombaya (Boddaert, 1785); centralis Ryley, 1913; dealbata (Blanford, 1897); elphinstoni (Sykes, 1831); malabarica (Scopoli, 1786); maxima (Schreber, 1784); purpureus (Zimmermann, 1777); superans Ryley, 1913.
COMMENTS: Pennant (1771:281) described, but did not name this species, and said it "Inhabits Bombay."
Notes
Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 437, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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References
- Moore, J. C., and G. H. H. Tate. 1965. A study of the diurnal squirrels, Sciurinae, of the Indian and Indochinese subregions. Fieldiana: Zoology, 48: 1 - 351.
- Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus animalium, volumen 1: Sistens quadrupedia huc usque nota, erorumque varietates. C. R. Hake, Rotterdam, 174 pp.
- Pennant, T. 1771. Synopsis of Quadrupeds. J. Monk, Chester, 382 pp.