Moschiola kathygre, Groves & Meijaard, 2005

Groves, C. P. & Meijaard, E., 2005, Interspecific Variation In Moschiola, The Indian Chevrotain, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (suppl 12) s 12, pp. 413-422 : 419-420

3. Moschiola kathygre new species

Type. – B.M. 46.209, skin and skull.

Type locality. – Kumbalgamuwa, 7°06’N, 80°51’E, 747m (= 2454 feet), Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka.

Distribution. – Wet Zone of Sri Lanka, from Sinharaja Forest through the lowlands around Colombo north to Katagamuwa on the border of the Dry Zone at 6°24’N, 81°25’E, and into the highlands at least to the Kandy district.

Diagnosis. – Coloura muchwarmer, more ochery brownthan other species; spots and stripes are yellowed, not white; at least twotolerably complete longitudinal stripes along flanks, with an elongated spot-row between them, and two spotrows above them; the upper stripe curves round on shoulder to be continuous with the anterior transverse stripes; two bold stripes over the haunch, and a third one further back under the tail; haunch is more densely spotted; crown and nose less darkened; on underside is a sharp differentiation between a white median strip and the pale ochery of the rest of underside; lower halves of the hindlimbs are darker. Size small, hindlegs relatively short. The followingmeasurements are diagnostic cf. M. indica (in mm): tail length max. 26, width across canine alveoli <50, least breadth across maxilla max. 14.2, braincase breadth max. 33; andthefollowing is diagnostic cf. both M. indica and M. meminna : hindfoot length max. 115. Compared to both other species, rostrum breadth is less relative to skull length; compared to M. meminna , bullae are narrower, especially relativeto interbullar distance.

Etymology. – Greek kathygre , feminine of kathygros (kata [down from, on account of] + hygros [wetness], hence = growing in wet places, with reference toits Wet Zone habitat).