Callosciurus pygerythrus

(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

Irrawaddy Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Callosciurinae
Tribe : Callosciurini
Genus : Callosciurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1831-03-19. Mammifères. Pp. 1–160 in Bélanger, C. 1835. Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le Nord de l'Europe, les Provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse, suivi de Détails topographiques, statistiques et autres sur le Pégou, les Iles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérance et Sainte-Hélène, pendant les Années 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Zoologie. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 535 pp.

Original name as described

Sciurus pygerythrus

Other common names

Hoary-bellied Squirrel

Type material

MNHN 1829-286 (= MNHN 294)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"dans les forêts de Syriam, au Pégou," Myanmar.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

Nepal · India · Bhutan · Bangladesh · Myanmar · China

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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