Tragulus napu

(F. Cuvier in É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1822)

Greater Indo-Malayan Chevrotain

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Tragulina
Family : Tragulidae
Genus : Tragulus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. and Cuvier, F. 1822-11. Livraison 37. in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. and Cuvier, F. 1818-1842. Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivants. Blaise, Paris.

Original name as described

Moschus Napu

Type material

MNHN Galerie 166-573

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Sumatra, Indonesia. Restricted by Sody in 1931 to southern Sumatra.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Myanmar · Thailand · Cambodia? · Laos? · Malaysia · Singapore · Indonesia · Brunei

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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