| 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 | |
| Moschiola meminna (Erxleben, 1777) | |
| Synonyms | |
Moschus meminnaErxleben, 1777 | |
Moschiola meminna is aspecies ofeven-toed ungulate in thechevrotainfamily (Tragulidae). Particularly in the old literature,M. meminna often refers to thespotted chevrotains as a whole. Today, the name is increasingly restricted to theSri Lankan spotted chevrotain orwhite-spotted chevrotain, with theIndian spotted chevrotainM. indica[1] and/or theyellow-striped chevrotainM. kathygre treated as distinct species.
InSri Lanka, this species is found in the dry zone and is replaced in the wet zone by theyellow-striped chevrotain.[2]
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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