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Mus cervicolor Hodgson 1845

Description

Mus cervicolor Hodgson, 1845. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 15:268.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal.

DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous range from Nepal east through Sikkim into NE India (Assam), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam (see map in J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a). Also recorded from Sumatra and Java where it has likely been inadvertently introduced (Musser and Newcomb, 1983).

SYNONYMS: annamensis, cunicularis, imphalensis, nitidulus, popaeus, strophiatus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mus.

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 623, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Scientific name authorship
Hodgson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Mus
Species
cervicolor
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mus cervicolor Hodgson, 1845 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • 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.