Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel | |
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From West Sikkim, India .
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Dremomys |
Species: | D. lokriah
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Binomial name | |
Dremomys lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)
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The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is a species of
Taxonomy
The species was first described as Sciurus lokriah by Hodgson in the year 1836.
Although subspecies of D. lokriah has gone though several revisions, presently, there are total eight known valid subspecies of the Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel exists throughout its distribution range. Six of them are distributed in India.[5] All of the validations of these subspecies were however through morpho-taxonomy and multivariate analysis. Molecular studies on the validation of these subspecies are still to be performed.
References
- ^ a b Molur, S. (2008). "Dremomys lokriah". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ^ Hodgson, B.H. (1836). "In Synoptical description of Sundry new animals, enumerated in the catalogue of Nipalese Mammals". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 5: 232.
- ^ Thomas, O; Wroughton, R. C (1916). "Dremomys macmillani In Scientific results from the mammal survey". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 24: 238.
- S2CID 236563330.
- S2CID 236563330.
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.