Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
| Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain | |
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| Sri Lanka spotted chevrotain at Field Museum, mounted specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Tragulidae |
| Genus: | Moschiola |
| Species: | M. meminna |
| Binomial name | |
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Moschiola meminna (Erxleben, 1777) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Moschus meminna Erxleben, 1777 |
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Moschus meminna Erxleben, 1777
Tragulus meminna (Erxleben, 1777)
Moschiola meminna is a species of even-toed ungulate in the chevrotain family (Tragulidae). Particularly in the old literature, M. meminna often refers to the spotted chevrotains as a whole. Today, the name is increasingly restricted to the Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain or white-spotted chevrotain, with the Indian spotted chevrotain M. indica and/or the yellow-striped chevrotain M. kathygre treated as distinct species.
In Sri Lanka, this species is found in the dry zone and is replaced in the wet zone by the yellow-striped chevrotain.
Head and body length in the species typically is 55–60 cm. It is dull brown in color with three or four dotted white stripes going longitudinally along flank.
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