Rattus sikkimensis Hinton 1919
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Rattus sikkimensis Hinton, 1919. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 26:394.
TYPE LOCALITY: India, Sikkim, Pashok, 3500 ft.
DISTRIBUTION: S China (incl. islands of Hong Kong and Hainan), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (incl. Koh Klum off SE Thailand in the Gulf of Siam), C and N Burma, NE India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Bhutan), and possibly E Nepal. Not recorded on the mainland of peninsular Thailand south of Isthmus of Kra (10°30'N), but occurs on four islands (Koh Tau, Koh Pangan, Koh Samui, and Koh Kra) off the coast well south of the Isthmus (see map in Musser and Heaney, 1985).
SYNONYMS: hainanicus, klumensis, koratensis, kraensis, remotus, yaoshanensis.
COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of R. rattus (Hinton, 1919), then listed as a synonym of R. r. brunneusculus (Ellerman, 1961). South Vietnamese samples discussed under R. sladeni (Van Peenen et al., 1969), N Vietnamese series under R. koratensis (Dao, 1985), and Thai samples under R. koratensis and R. remotus (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hinton
- Species
- sikkimensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus sikkimensis Hinton, 1919 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.
- Van Peenen, P. F. D., P. F. Ryan, and R. H. Light. 1969. Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. United States Naional Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 310 pp.
- Dao Van Tien. 1985. Scientific results of some mammals surveys in North Vietnam (1957 - 1971). Scientific and Technical Publishing House, Ha Noi, 330 pp.