Moschiola

Moschiola, the spotted chevrotains, are a genus of small even-toed ungulates in the family Tragulidae. They are found in forests in India, Sri Lanka and perhaps Nepal, and have pale-spotted or -striped upperparts unlike the other Asian members of the family, the mouse-deer of the genus Tragulus.^[1]

Moschiola
"Tragulus meminna" from the Fauna of British India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Tragulidae
Genus:	Moschiola Gray, 1852
Type species
Moschus meminna Erxleben, 1777

In former times, the genus was usually treated as monotypic. Described as Moschus meminna, for most of the time the name Tragulus meminna was used, but changed to Moschiola meminna eventually. In the 21st century, this is increasingly divided into up to three parapatric species:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	M. meminna sensu stricto	Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain	drier parts of Sri Lanka
	M. indica	Indian spotted chevrotain	South Asian mainland north to Nepal
	M. kathygre	Yellow-striped chevrotain	humid parts of Sri Lanka