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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Mustelinae
--> GENUS Martes
SPECIES Martes gwatkinsii
| Author: | Horsfield, 1851. | | Citation: | Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. India Co.: 90. | | Common Name: | Nilgiri Marten | | Type Locality: | "Madras" [India]. | | Distribution: | S India. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Included in Martes flavigula by Corbet (1978), Honacki et al. (1982), and Corbet and Hill (1992); however, separated by Bonhote (1901b), Pocock (1936a, 1941a), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Anderson (1970) and Rozhnov (1995). Pocock (1936a) placed gwatkinsii and flavigula in the genus Lamprogale. |
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