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Menetes berdmorei
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Indochinese Ground Squirrel

Menetes berdmorei (Blyth, 1849)

Also calledBerdmore-Palmenhörnchen (deu) · Ecureuil des palmiers (fra) · ardilla terrestre de Berdmore (spa) · bambuorava (fin) · indochinka paskowana (pol) · veverka Berdmoreova (ces) · Белка Бердмора (rus) · กระจ้อน (tha) · กระรอกดินข้างลาย (tha) · កង្ហែន (khm) · インドシナシマリス (jpn)

First described in: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal vol.18 30 p.603

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution: Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (recorded in Lampi Marine NP; Bisi et al. 2019 and possibly distributed from Central to Southeastern area). Remarks: There are seven recognized subspecies and two subspecies: M. b. berdmorei and M. b. decorates are listed in Myanmar.

Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist

child_taxa

Subspecies:: Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. berdmorei Blyth 1849 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. consularis Thomas 1914 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. decoratus Thomas 1914 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. moerescens Thomas 1914 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. mouhotei Gray 1861 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. peninsularis Kloss 1919 Subspecies Menetes berdmorei subsp. pyrrocephalus Milne-Edwards 1867

Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae

discussion

Discussion: For taxonomic history, see Moore and Tate (1965: 294). Chromosomes described by Nadler and Hoffmann (1970). Corbet and Hill (1992) opined " Although there is considerable geographic variation ... it is unlikely that discrete subspecies can be recognized. ".

Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae

distribution

Distribution: S Vietnam, Cambodia, S Laos, Thailand, S Yunnan (China) to C Burma.

Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437409.