Petaurista elegans (Müller, 1840)

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 : 462

Petaurista elegans (Müller, 1840) . In Temminck, Verhandl. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Zoogd. Indisch. Archipel, pp. 35, 56[1840], see comments.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Java " [ Indonesia] .

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal, Sikkim ( India), Sichuan and Yunnan ( China), N and W Burma, Laos, Tonkin ( Vietnam), Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java ( Indonesia), Borneo.

SYNONYMS: banksi Chasen, 1933; caniceps ( Gray, 1842) ; clarkei Thomas, 1922; gorkhali (Lindsay, 1929); marica Thomas, 1912; punctatus ( Gray, 1846) ; senex ( Hodgson, 1844) ; slamatensis Sody, 1949; sumatrana Kloss, 1921; sybilla Thomas, 1916.

COMMENTS: Includes clarkei and marica; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966:460-461). This species was described in greater detail by Schlegel and Müller, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Mammalia, pp. 107, 112[1845]. See Appendix I. Corbet and Hill (1992) considered caniceps from Nepal, Sikkim, N Burma, and W China, and sybilla from a few localities in Burma and W China, as distinct species, sympatric with elegans in W Yunnan ( China).