Callosciurus pygerythrus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 158

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13921435

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Callosciurus pygerythrus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)
status

 

51. Callosciurus pygerythrus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831) View in CoL

Common name: Irrawaddy Squirrel

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Magway Region (Shwesettaw WS; Thu et al. 2022), Sagaing Region (Proposed Mahamyaing WS; Thazin Wai et al. 2018) and possibly distributed in the Central and Western area.

Remarks: Seven subspecies were recognized; C. p. pygerythrus, C.p. blythii, C.p. janetta, C.p. mearsi, C. p. owensi, C.p.stevensi are considered as the subspecies that distributed in Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Sciuromorpha

Family

Sciuridae

SubFamily

Callosciurinae

Genus

Callosciurus

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