• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: First report of the Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus macrourus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Hystricidae) from West Bengal­­­, India
  • Beteiligte: Dash, Suraj Kumar; Chettri, Abhisek; Naha, Dipanjan; Sathyakumar, Sambandam
  • Erschienen: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, 2021
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Threatened Taxa
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.11609/jott.5950.13.1.17561-17563
  • ISSN: 0974-7907; 0974-7893
  • Schlagwörter: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ; Nature and Landscape Conservation ; Animal Science and Zoology ; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>We report the western most distribution of the Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus macrourus (Thomas, 1921) in India.  An individual was photo captured in the semi-evergreen forests of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, northern West Bengal on the night of 28 January 2019.  It is a rare rodent species that is distributed in the northeastern states of India but was not reported from West Bengal. </jats:p>
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