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Petaurista alborufus
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Petaurista alborufus (Milne-Edwards, 1870). C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 70:342.
TYPE LOCALITY: Moupin [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China].
DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, S and C China.
SYNONYMS: alborusus (Hilzheimer, 1906); castaneus Thomas, 1923; leucocephalus (Hilzheimer, 1906); lena Thomas, 1907; ochraspis Thomas, 1923; pectoralis Swinhoe, 1871.
COMMENTS: Includes lena which was treated as a separate species by Kuntz and Ming (1970); see Jones (1975). Provisionally includes pectoralis (Corbet and Hill, 1992). Reviewed by Day (1988).
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 462, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD6F970FF94FFA5CB40AC773518FF86 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Petaurista
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Milne-Edwards
- Species
- alborufus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petaurista alborufus (Milne-Edwards, 1870) sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993
References
- Kuntz, R. E., and D. E. Ming. 1970. Vertebrates of Taiwan taken for parasitological and biomedical studies by U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 23: 1 - 37.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.
- Day, Y. - T. 1988. Subspecies and geographic variation of Petaurista alborufus and P. petaurista (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 41 (1): 75 - 83.