Putjata's expedition to Chinese Khingan in 1891 and its small mammal collection from "Tongjia Yingzi" kept at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia

Putjata's expedition to Chinese Khingan in 1891 and its small mammal collection from "Tongjia Yingzi" kept at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia

Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Petrova E.A.

P. 56-66

All available information on the small mammal collection from the collecting point Tongjia Yingzi of the Khingan expedition in 1891 under the leadership by Dmitry V. Putjata is presented. Also, the geographic position of this point is clarified. The collection is kept at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and, at present, contains 17 specimens from Tongjia Yingzi of Putjata's Khingan collection; these belong to Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, and Rodentia.DOI: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.18.1.07

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