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Lenothrix canus Miller 1903

Description

Lenothrix canus Miller 1903

Lenothrix canus Miller 1903, Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 26 (1317): 466.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Pulau Tuangku (west of Sumatra).

Vernacular Names: Sundaic Lenothrix.

Synonyms: Lenothrix malaisia (Kloss 1931).

Distribution: Malay Peninsula, Penang Isl, Tuangku Isl, and Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, and SW Kalimantan); Musser (1981 a) and references cited below.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Historical allocations of canus to species-clusters now defined as Rattus, Diplothrix, or Maxomys, as well as comparisons between L. canus and other Sundaic endemics documented by Musser (1981 a, b) and Musser and Newcomb (1983). It is an arboreal species occupying lowland and foothill secondary and primary forests on the Malay Peninsula (Muul and Lim, 1971), and has been taken at 550 m on the slopes of Mt Kinabalu in Sabah (Md Nor, 2001). The Kalimantan record, from Gunung Palung National Park, was noted by Blundell (1996:258) and verified by A. J. Gorog (pers. comm.), who examined the specimen.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1345, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Miller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Lenothrix
Species
canus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lenothrix canus Miller, 1903 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Musser, G. G. 1981 a. A new genus of arboreal rat from West Java, Indonesia. Zoologische Verhandelingen uitgegeven door het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden, 189: 1 - 35.
  • Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598.
  • Muul, I., and B. L. Lim. 1971. New locality records for some mammals of West Malaysia. Journal of Mammalogy, 52: 430 - 437.
  • Md Nor, S. 2001. Elevational diversity patterns of small mammals on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 10: 41 - 62.
  • Blundell, A. G. 1996. A preliminary checklist of mammals at Cabang Panti Research Station, Gunung Palung Nationaal Park, West Kalimantan. Tropical Biodiversity, 3 (3): 251 - 259.