Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 155

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13931037

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE6D-FFFB-9F4B-FD93FB62011B

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778)
status

 

29. Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778) View in CoL

Common name: Black Giant Squirrel

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Kachin State (Madwal Razi; Lwin et al. 2021), Rakhine State (South Rakhine Yoma; Geissmann et al. 2008), Sagaing Region (Proposed Mahamyaing WS; Thazin Wai et al. 2018), Tanintharyi Region (Lampi Marine NP; Bisi et al. 2019 and Proposed Lenya NP; Grindley 2019). Remarks: Eleven subspecies are recognized: R. b. angusticeps, R. b. felli, R. b. gigantean, R. b. leucogenys, R. b. melanopepla and R. b. phaeopepla are considered as the subspecies that occurred in Myanmar ( Thorington et al. 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Sciuromorpha

Family

Sciuridae

SubFamily

Ratufinae

Genus

Ratufa

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