Ratufa macroura (Pennant, 1769)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 437

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scientific name	Ratufa macroura (Pennant, 1769)
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Ratufa macroura (Pennant, 1769) View in CoL . Indian Zool., 1, pl. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Ceylon and Malabar.... Malacca...Goa and Amboina." Restricted by Phillips (1933) to highlands of Central and Uva Provs., Sri Lanka .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka and S India.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: albipes ( Blyth, 1859); ceilonensis ( Boddaert, 1785); ceylonica ( Erxleben, 1777); dandolena Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; macrura Blanford, 1891; melanochra Thomas and Wroughton, 1915; montana (Kalaart, 1852); sinhala Phillips, 1931; tennentii (Layard, 1849); zeylanicus (Ray, 1693).