Millardia meltada
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Millardia meltada (Gray 1837)
[Golunda] meltada Gray 1837, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 1: 586.
Type Locality: India, S Mahratta, Dharwar.
Vernacular Names: Common Metad.
Synonyms: Millardia comberi (Wroughton 1907); Millardia dunni Thomas 1917; Millardia lanuginosus (Elliot 1839); Millardia listoni (Wroughton 1907); Millardia mettada (Wroughton 1907); Millardia pallidior Ryley 1914; Millardia singuri Mandal and Ghosh 1981.
Distribution: Sri Lanka; Indian Peninsula west to Gujarat and Rajasthan, north to Himachal Pradesh, and east to West Bengal; E Pakistan; and Terai region of Nepal (Agrawal, 2000, Chakraborty and Agrawal, 2000; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Ellerman, 1961; Rana, 1985).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Cytogenetics of this species is the subject of a substantial body of literature (Nanda and Raman, 1981; Raman and Sharma, 1977; Sobti and Gill, 1984; Yosida, 1978 a). Mandal and Ghosh (1981) described singuri as a subspecies of M. meltada. Subspecies formerly recognized in M. meltada (Ellerman, 1961) were based upon differences in fur coloration, but Agrawal (2000) noted the lack of significant geographic pattern in color variation as well as external and cranial dimensions among samples and treated the taxa as synonyms. Habitat and distribution on Abu Hill in the Aravalli Range in Rajasthan, India documented by Prakash et al. (1995 a, 1995 b), and in Gujarat State of NW India by Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000). Reviewed by Agrawal (2000).
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- Gray, J. E. 1837 [1838]. On a new species of paradoxure (Paradoxurus derbianus) with remarks on some Mammalia recently purchased by the British Museum, and characters of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1837: 67.
- Mandal, A. K., and S. Ghosh. 1981. A new subspecies of the meltad, Millardia meltada (Gray, 1837) [Rodentia: Muridae] from West Bengal. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India, 4: 235 - 238.
- 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.
- 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.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.
- 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.
- Rana, B. D. 1985. Ecological distribution of Rattus meltada in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 82: 573 - 580.
- Nanda, I., and R. Raman. 1981. Cytological similarity between the heterochromatin of the large X and Y chromosomes of the soft- furred field rat, Millardia meltada (family: Muridae). Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 30: 77 - 82.
- Raman, R., and T. Sharma. 1977. Karyotype evolution and speciation in genus Rattus Fischer. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 36: 385 - 404.
- Sobti, R. C., and S. S. Gill. 1984. Chromosomes and protein polymorphs in certain Rattus species from North India. Research Bulletin (Science) of the Punjab University, 35: 203 - 210.
- Yosida, T. H. 1978 a. Experimental breeding and cytogenetics of the soft-furred rat, Millardia meltada. Laboratory Animals, 12: 73 - 77.
- Prakash, I., P. Singh, and A. Saravanan. 1995 a. Small mammals of the Abu Hill, Aravalli Ranges in Rajasthan, India. A comprehensive taxonomic and ecological study. Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology, 5 (1): 55 - 64.
- Prakash, I., P. Singh, and A. Saravanan. 1995 b. Ecological distribution of small mammals in the Aravalli Ranges. Proceedings of the Indian Natural Science Academy, 61 B (2): 137 - 148.