Jerdon's Palm Civet
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Paradoxurus jerdoni Blanford, 1885 |
Jerdon's Palm Civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni), also called the Brown Palm Civet, is a civet endemic to Western Ghats, India.
It is distributed in the Palni, Nilgiri and Anamalai hills, Travancore and Coorg (Pocock 1939, Corbet & Hill 1992, Mudappa 1998) particularly at an altitude ranging between 500 and 1300 m.
There are two subspecies, the nominate P. j. jerdoni, and P. j. caniscus.[1]
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- ^ a b Wozencraft, W. C. (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 551. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ CBSG CAMP Workshop, India (2000). Paradoxurus jerdoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
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