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--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Callosciurinae
--> GENUS Callosciurus
SPECIES Callosciurus erythraeus
| Author: | Pallas, 1779. | | Citation: | Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord.: 377. | | Common Name: | Pallas’s Squirrel | | Type Locality: | Not known; restricted to Assam, India by Bonhote (1901a); further restricted to the Garo Hills of Assam by Moore and Tate (1965). | | Distribution: | West of Irrawaddy River in India, Burma, and SE China. East of Irrawaddy River in Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Indochina, S China, and Taiwan. Introduced into Argentina (Aprila and Chicco, 1999). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Includes sladeni; see Moore and Tate (1965). Includes flavimanus G. St. Hillaire (1831) as a junior synonym (Corbet and Hill, 1992:286); both were previously considered distinct (Moore and Tate, 1965). Subspecies allocations follow Moore and Tate (1965). Chromosomes described (as flavimanus) by Nadler et al. (1975b). Indian populations reviewed by Agrawal and Chakraborty (1979) and by Oshida et al. (1996a, b), and Vietnamese populations by Dao (1965). |
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