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Moschus chrysogaster

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Moschus chrysogaster (Hodgson, 1839). J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 8:203.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Nepal " (Probably Tibetan Plateau).

DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas of N Afghanistan, N Pakistan, N India (incl. Sikkim), and Nepal; C Tibet to C China.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan; otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China (Yunnan and Tibet), India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sikkim.

SYNONYMS: cupreus, leucogaster, sifanicus.

COMMENTS: A well defined species; see both Groves (1976) and Gao (1963), under the name sifanicus. The name sifanicus should be included in M. chrysogaster, but " chrysogaster " of Cai and Feng (1981) is subspecifically or specifically distinct. Available name for this taxon may be leucogaster Hodgson, 1839; see Grubb (1982a). Groves and Grubb (1987) provisionally treated leucogaster as a species; Grubb (1990) listed it as a Himalayan subspecies-group of M. chrysogaster.

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 383-384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB02FF932DA8D11DFB260C72.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Moschidae
Genus
Moschus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hodgson
Species
chrysogaster
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Moschus chrysogaster (Hodgson, 1839) sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Groves, C. P. 1976. The taxonomy of Moschus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), with particular reference to the Indian Region. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 72: 662 - 676.
  • Gao Yao-ting [Kao Yueh-ting]. 1963. [Taxonomic notes on the Chinese musk-deer]. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 15: 479 - 488 (in Chinese).
  • Cai Gui-quan, and Feng Zuo-jiang. 1981. [On the occurrence of the Himalayan musk-deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in China and an approach to the systematics of the genus Moschus]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 6: 106 - 110 (in Chinese).
  • Grubb, P. 1982 a. The systematics of Sino-Himalayan musk deer (Moschus), with particular reference to the species described by B. H. Hodgson. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 30: 127 - 135.
  • Groves, C. P., and P. Grubb. 1987. Relationships of living deer. Pp. 2 l- 59, in Biology and management of the Cervidae (C. M. Wemmer, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 577 pp.
  • Grubb, P. 1990. List of deer species and subspecies. Deer, Journal of the British Deer Society, 8: 153 - 155.