Moschus leucogaster Hodgson 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 652

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Moschus leucogaster Hodgson 1839 , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 8: 203.

Type Locality: "Cis and Trans Hemelayan regions"; "lofty mountains of the interior of Tibet... On the Tibetan slopes of the Himanchal, Saturatus chiefly resides...I have specimens of all three species [ chrysogaster , leucogaster , saturatus ] from Lassa and Digurchee, whilst my garden is seldom deprived of the ornament of several live families of the Saturatus of the Kachar [Alpine life-zone]" ( Hodgson, 1842, J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 6:285) ( Nepal, Himalayas) .

Vernacular Names: Himalayan Musk Deer.

Synonyms: Moschus cacharensis Lydekker 1915 ; Moschus saturatus Hodgson 1839 ; Moschus zhangmu Groves, Wang and Grubb 1995 .

Distribution: Himalayas of Bhutan, N India (incl. Sikkim), and Nepal.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as M. chrysogaster leucogaster .

Discussion: Groves and Grubb (1987) and Groves et al. (1995) treated leucogaster as a separate species from M. chrysogaster , from which it differs in skull proportions; Grubb (1990) listed it as a Himalayan subspecies-group of M. chrysogaster .