Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Belomys pearsonii

Description

Belomys pearsonii (Gray, 1842). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:263.

TYPE LOCALITY: " India, [Assam,] Dargellan" (= Darjeeling).

DISTRIBUTION: Sikkim and Assam (India) to Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, (China); Bhutan; Taiwan, Indochina, and N Burma (see Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979).

SYNONYMS: blandus Osgood, 1932; kaleensis (Swinhoe, 1863); trichotis Thomas, 1908; villosus (Blyth, 1847).

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1992) synonomyzed this monotypic genus with Trogopterus.

Notes

Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 459, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

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Biodiversity

Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Belomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
pearsonii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Belomys pearsonii (Gray, 1842) sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993

References

  • Agrawal, V. C., and S. Chakraborty. 1979. Catalogue of mammals in the Zoological Survey of India. Part 1. Sciuridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 74: 333 - 481.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1932. Mammals of the Kelley-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expeditions. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 18: 193 - 339.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.