Callosciurus erythraeus
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Callosciurus
Callosciurus erythraeus

description: Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas 1779)
[Sciurus] erythraeus Pallas 1779, Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord.: 377.
Type Locality: Not known; restricted to Assam, India by Bonhote (1901 a); further restricted to the Garo Hills of Assam by Moore and Tate (1965).
Vernacular Names: Pallas's Squirrel.
Synonyms: Callosciurus cinnamomeiventris (Swinhoe 1862); Callosciurus cucphuongis Dao Van Tien 1965; Callosciurus dabshanensis Xu and Chen 1989; Callosciurus gongshanensis Wang 1981; Callosciurus griseopectus (Blyth 1847); Callosciurus quinlingensis Xu and Chen 1989; Callosciurus tsingtauensis (Hilzheimer 1906); Callosciurus wuliangshanensis Li and Wang 1981.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. erythraeus Pallas 1779
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. atrodorsalis Gray 1942
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. bartoni Thomas 1914
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. bhutanensis Bonhote 1901
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. bonhotei Robinson and Wroughton 1911
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. castaneoventris Gray 1842
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. erythrogaster Blyth 1842
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. flavimanus Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1831
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. gloveri Thomas 1921
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. gordoni Anderson 1871
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. griseimanus Milne-Edwards 1867
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. harringtoni Thomas 1905
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. hendeei Osgood 1932
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. hyperythrus Blyth 1855
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. intermedius Anderson 1879
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. michianus Robinson and Wroughton 1911
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. ningpoensis Bonhote 1901
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. pranis Kloss 1916
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. rubeculus Miller 1903
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. shanicus Ryley 1914
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. siamensis Gray 1860
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. sladeni Anderson 1871
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. styani Thomas 1894
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. thai Kloss 1917
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. thaiwanensis Bonhote 1901
Subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus subsp. zimmeensis Robinson and Wroughton 1916
Distribution: West of Irrawaddy River in India, Burma, and SE China. East of Irrawaddy River in Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Indochina, S China, and Taiwan. Introduced into Argentina (Aprila and Chicco, 1999).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Includes sladeni; see Moore and Tate (1965). Includes flavimanus G. St. Hillaire (1831) as a junior synonym (Corbet and Hill, 1992:286); both were previously considered distinct (Moore and Tate, 1965). Subspecies allocations follow Moore and Tate (1965). Chromosomes described (as flavimanus) by Nadler et al. (1975 b). Indian populations reviewed by Agrawal and Chakraborty (1979) and by Oshida et al. (1996 a, b), and Vietnamese populations by Dao (1965).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 776, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535