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SPECIES Moschus berezovskii

Author:Flerov, 1928.
Actual Date:1929
Citation:C. R. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., 1928A: 519.
Common Name:Forest Musk Deer
Type Locality:"Mountain défilé [sic] Ho-tzi-how, environs of town Lun-ngan-fu, Sze-chuan, China" (China, Sichuan, near Lungan, Ho-tsi-how Pass).
Distribution:S and C China (Shaanxi to Yunnan, and S Tibet) and N Vietnam.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered in Tibet and Yunnan (China); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Revised by Wang et al (1993). A well-defined species sharply distinct from the parapatric or marginally sympatric M. chrysogaster; see Kao (1963), Groves (1976), and Grubb (1982a), yet treated as a synonym of M. moschiferus sifanicus (= M. chrysogaster sifanicus) by Sokolov and Prikhod'ko (1997).
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SUBSPECIES berezovskii

SUBSPECIES bijiangensis

SUBSPECIES caobangis

SUBSPECIES yanguiensis

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