Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:420. TYPE LOCALITY: "in India orientali" [Bombay, India]. Based on "Pennant's Bombay squirrel" (Moore and Tate, 1965:43). DISTRIBUTION: C and S India, excluding central lowlands. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Endangered as R. i. dealbata and R. i. elphinstonei. SYNONYMS: bengalensis (Blanford, 1897); bombaya (Boddaert, 1785); centralis Ryley, 1913; dealbata (Blanford, 1897); elphinstoni (Sykes, 1831); malabarica (Scopoli, 1786); maxima (Schreber, 1784); purpureus (Zimmermann, 1777); superans Ryley, 1913. COMMENTS: Pennant (1771:281) described, but did not name this species, and said it "Inhabits Bombay."

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Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 437, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130