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Taxonomy
Ursus malayanus was named by Raffles (1821). It is extant.
It was recombined as Helarctos malayanus by Ewer (1973).
It was recombined as Helarctos malayanus by Ewer (1973).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1821 | Ursus malayanus Raffles |
| 1826 | Helarctos euryspilus Horsfield p. 221 |
| 1973 | Helarctos malayanus Ewer |
| 1999 | Ursus malayanus Waits et al. p. 90 |
| 2001 | Ursus malayanus Larivière p. 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Ursus malayanus Raffles 1821 [sun bear]
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Invalid names: Helarctos euryspilus Horsfield 1826 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | Malaysia (Perak) | Helarctos malayanus (235742) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Ursus malayanus (237787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Ursus malayanus (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Laos (Hua Pan) | Helarctos malayanus (235746) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Helarctos malayanus (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Malaysia (Selangor) | Helarctos malayanus (235743) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia | Ursus malayanus (93524) |