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SPECIES Menetes berdmorei

Author:Blyth, 1849.
Citation:J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 18(30): 603.
Common Name:Indochinese Ground Squirrel
Type Locality:"Thougyeen district" [Tenasserim, Burma].
Distribution:S Vietnam, Cambodia, S Laos, Thailand, S Yunnan (China) to C Burma.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:For taxonomic history, see Moore and Tate (1965:294). Chromosomes described by Nadler and Hoffmann (1970). Corbet and Hill (1992) opined "Although there is considerable geographic variation...it is unlikely that discrete subspecies can be recognized."
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SUBSPECIES berdmorei

SUBSPECIES consularis

SUBSPECIES decoratus

SUBSPECIES moerescens

SUBSPECIES mouhotei

SUBSPECIES peninsularis

SUBSPECIES pyrrocephalus

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