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Melursus ursinus
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Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791). Nat. Mise., 2 (unpaged) pl. 58.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Abinteriore Bengala"; restricted by Pocock (1941a) as "Patna, north of the Ganges, Bengal" [India].
DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India, north to the Indian desert and to the foothills of the Himalayas.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.
SYNONYMS: inornatus Pucheran, 1855; labiatus de Blainville, 1817; longirostris Tiedemann, 1820; lybius Meyer, 1793; niger Goldfuss, 1804.
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Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 337, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
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References
- Pocock, R. I. 1941 a. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Vol. II. Carnivora (suborders Aeluroidae (part) and Arctoidae). Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, 503 pp.