Millardia gleadowi
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Millardia gleadowi (Murray 1885)
[Millardia] gleadowi (Murray 1885), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885: 809.
Type Locality: Pakistan, Clifton Plain, Karachi.
Vernacular Names: Sand-colored Metad.
Distribution: S and C Pakistan on west side of Indus River (Roberts, 1977, 1997) and adjacent NW India (Agrawal, 2000).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: A distinctive species morphologically unlike any other Millardia and adapted to semideserts of shifting sand dunes, clay flats, and rocky hillsides. Raman and Sharma (1977) reported essentially no similarity between karyotypes of M. meltada and M. gleadowi. Its inclusion in Millardia should be reexamined. Indian population reviewed by Agrawal (2000); ecology and distribution in Gujarat State of NW India recorded by Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/233726244AF9D4C5F75BAA9D172AB855 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540109 (URL)
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References
- Roberts, T. J. 1977. The mammals of Pakistan. Ernest Benn Limited, London, 361 pp.
- Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp.
- Raman, R., and T. Sharma. 1977. Karyotype evolution and speciation in genus Rattus Fischer. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 36: 385 - 404.
- Chakraborty, S., and V. C. Agrawal. 2000. Mammalia. Pp. 15 - 83, in State Fauna Series No. 8, Fauna of Gujarat (Part I), Vertebrates (J. R. B. Alfred, ed.), Zoological Survey of India, 464 pp.