Niviventer J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976
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Niviventer J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976
Niviventer J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976, Family Muridae: rats and mice [Government Printing Office, Bangkok]: 402 (See Musser, 1981 b, for discussion of original citation).
Type Species: Mus niviventer Hodgeson 1836
Species and subspecies: 17 species:
Species Niviventer andersoni (Thomas 1911)
Species Niviventer brahma (Thomas 1914)
Species Niviventer cameroni (Chasen 1940)
Species Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards 1871)
Species Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe 1864)
Species Niviventer cremoriventer (Miller 1900)
Species Niviventer culturatus (Thomas 1917)
Species Niviventer eha (Wroughton 1916)
Species Niviventer excelsior (Thomas 1911)
Species Niviventer fraternus (Robinson and Kloss 1916)
Species Niviventer fulvescens (Gray 1847)
Species Niviventer hinpoon J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976
Species Niviventer langbianis (Robinson and Kloss 1922)
Species Niviventer lepturus (Jentink 1879)
Species Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson 1836)
Species Niviventer rapit (Bonhote 1903)
Species Niviventer tenaster (Thomas 1916)
Discussion: Dacnomys Division. Diagnosed and contrasted with other Indo-Sundaic genera by Musser (1981 b), who also reviewed morphological, chromosomal, and distributional information. Additional chromosomal data are available for Vietnamese (Bulatova et al., 1992; Baskevich and Kuznetsov, 2000), Taiwanese (H.- T. Yu et al., 1996) and Chinese species (Wang et al., 1997).
Closest phylogenetic relatives are Indochinese Chiromyscus and Dacnomys; among Sundaic genera, Niviventer shares dental derivations with Berylmys, Leopoldamys, and Maxomys (Musser, 1981 b; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Analyses of chromosomal data postulated similarities among Niviventer, Lenothrix, and possibly Maxomys, and an origin from a common ancestor (Gadi and Sharma, 1983). Analyses of allozymic and morphological data for Malay Peninsula species demonstrated substantial separation from Rattus, with which Niviventer had been merged (Ellerman, 1941, 1961; see history in Musser, 1981 b), and alliance with Lenothrix in protein variation, but equivocal affinities in morphological context (Chan et al., 1979). Spermatozoal morphology equivocal in assessing phylogenetic relationships (Breed and Yong, 1986). Cladistic analysis of DNA sequence from LINE-1 elements placed Niviventer and Leopoldamys together in a clade (our Dacnomys Division) separate from another containing Rattus, Berylmys, Sundamys, and Bandicota (our Rattus Division), and a third with only Maxomys (Verneau et al., 1997, 1998). These kinship patterns are also supported by albumin immunology (Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b), DNA/DNA hybridization (Chevret, 1994 [cited in Verneau, 1997]), and generally by cranial and dental traits (Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) listed Niviventer in a Dacnomys Section of a more inclusive Rattus Group. Phallic morphology of three Chinese taxa described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines.
Recent multivariate analyses of morphometric traits for samples of Niviventer (Musser and Lunde, ms) substantiate the limits of 11 species (N. andersoni, N. brahma, N. coninga, N. cremoriventer, N. culturatus, N. eha, N. excelsior, N. hinpoon, N. langbianis, N. lepturus, and N. niviventer) that were considered clearly defined using morphological criteria (Corbet and Hill, 1992; Musser, 1981 b; Musser and Newcomb, 1983), and helped formulate definitions of N. confucianus, N. fulvescens, and N. tenaster in the Indochinese region and N. cameroni, N. rapit, and N. fraternus on the Sunda Shelf. The analyses also identify an undescribed species from N Burma and a new genus related to Niviventer from C Laos; descriptions of these taxa are being prepared by Musser and colleagues.
Niviventer is represented by fossils found in China and Thailand. Evolutionary history of N. andersoni and N. confucianus in S China extends back to early Pleistocene as documented by fossils recovered from cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region (Zheng, 1993); fragments found in the same region, but at late Pliocene to early Pleistocene horizons were described as N. preconfucianus (Zheng, 1993). Both N. confucianus and N. preconfucianus were discovered in Pleistocene fissure deposits in the Shandong region, with the latter found in earlier horizons (Zheng et al., 1997). Late or middle Pleistocene cave layers in Guangxi Province of S China yielded three molar classes, identified as Niviventer sp. 1 -3 (Chen et al., 2002). From middle Pleistocene cave sediments in Thailand come examples of extant N. fulvescens and extinct N. gracilis (Chaimanee, 1998). The earliest record of Niviventer is from 4.5 million-year-old strata (early Pliocene) in the Yushe Basin of Shanxi Province, which indicates an early origin for the Dacnomys Division (L. J. Flynn, in litt., 2003).
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- Muridae
- Genus
- Niviventer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
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- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- J. T. Marshall, Jr.
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Niviventer Marshall, 1976 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
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- Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.
- Robinson, H. C., and C. B. Kloss. 1916. Preliminary diagnoses of some new species and subspecies of mammals and birds obtained in Korinchi, West Sumatra, Feb. - June 1914. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 73: 269 - 278.
- Robinson, H. C., and C. B. Kloss. 1922. New mammals from French Indo-China and Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 9: 87 - 99.
- Bulatova, N., V. N. Orlov, and K. V. Shung. 1992. [Karyotypes of the rats of Vietnam.] Pp. 55 - 74, in Zoologicheski Issledovaniia vo Vetname. " Hayka ", Mockba, 280 pp (in Russian).
- Baskevich, M. I., and G. V. Kuznetsov. 2000. Preliminary chromosomal results of Niviventer Marshall, 1976 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae) from the Dalat Plateau in southern Vietnam. Pp. 351 - 356, in Isolated vertebrate communities in the tropics (G. Rheinwald, ed.). Bonner Zoologische Monographien, 46, 400 pp.
- Wang, J. - X., X. - F. Zhao, H. - Y. Qi, and Y. - Z. Wang. 1997. [Karyotypes of Niviventer confucianus (Rodentia: Muridae).] Acta Zoologica Sinica, 43 (3): 324 - 327 (in Chinese).
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- Yang An-feng and Fang Li-xiang. 1988. [Phallic morphology of 13 species of the family Muridae from China, with comments on its taxonomic significance.] Acta Theriologica Sinica, 8: 275 - 287 (in Chinese with English summary).
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