Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 337

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scientific name

Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791)
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Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791) View in CoL . Nat. Mise., 2 (unpaged) pl. 58.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Abinteriore Bengala"; restricted by Pocock (1941a) as "Patna, north of the Ganges, Bengal" [ India] .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India, north to the Indian desert and to the foothills of the Himalayas.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: inornatus Pucheran, 1855; labiatus de Blainville, 1817; longirostris Tiedemann, 1820 ; lybius Meyer, 1793 ; niger Goldfuss, 1804.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Ursidae

Genus

Melursus

Loc

Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791)

Shaw 1791: 58
1791
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