Ailurus styani
O. Thomas, 1902
Eastern Red Panda
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Carnivora |
| Suborder | : Caniformia |
| Infraorder | : Arctoidea |
| Superfamily | : Musteloidea |
| Family | : Ailuridae |
| Genus | : Ailurus |
Species status
Authority citation
Thomas, O. 1902-09-01. On the panda of Sze-chuen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)10(57):251-252.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19339054Original name as described
Ailurus fulgens Styani
Other common names
Chinese Red Panda · Styan's Red Panda
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1902.6.10.41
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/375d98fd-bb64-414e-821a-c8bf19d2e896Type locality
Yang-liu-pa, NW Sichuan, China.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
China · Myanmar · India?
Taxonomy notes
split from A. fulgens
Taxonomy notes citation
Groves, C. (2011). The taxonomy and phylogeny of Ailurus. Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda, 101-124. · Hu, Y., Thapa, A., Fan, H., Ma, T., Wu, Q., Ma, S., ... & Wei, F. (2020). Genomic evidence for two phylogenetic species and long-term population bottlenecks in red pandas. Science advances, 6(9), eaax5751.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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