Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas, 1779)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 157

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https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13931075

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scientific name

Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas, 1779)
status

 

48. Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas, 1779) View in CoL

Common name: Pallas ’ s Squirrel

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Kachin State (Proposed Imawbum NP; Nijman 2015), Sagaing Region (Proposed Mahamyaing WS; Thazin Wai et al. 2018), Tanintharyi Region (Lampi Marine NP; Bisi et al. 2019) and widely distributed throughout the country.

Remarks: Approximately 26 subspecies are generally recognized. Tun Yin (1993) listed several subspecies for Myanmar such as Naga squirrel C. e. nagarum, Kinnear ’ s squirrel C. e. kinneari and North Shan States Black-backed squirrel C. e. shanicus; however, there is no updated information to confirm these subspecies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Sciuromorpha

Family

Sciuridae

SubFamily

Callosciurinae

Genus

Callosciurus

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