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.
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