Order Carnivora
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
532
628
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Martes gwatkinsii
Horsfield 1851
Martes gwatkinsii
Horsfield 1851
,
Cat. Mamm. Mus. E.
India
Co.: 90
.
Type Locality:
"Madras" [
India
].
Vernacular Names:
Nilgiri Marten
.
Distribution:
S
India
.
Conservation:
CITES
– Appendix III (
India
);
IUCN
– Vulnerable.
Discussion:
Included in
Martes flavigula
by Corbet (1978),
Honacki et al. (1982)
, and
Corbet and Hill (1992)
; however, separated by
Bonhote (1901
b
)
,
Pocock (1936
a
,
1941
a
),
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951)
,
Anderson (1970)
and
Rozhnov (1995)
.
Pocock (1936
a
)
placed
gwatkinsii
and
flavigula
in the genus
Lamprogale
.