Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson, 1836)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 635

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Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson, 1836) View in CoL . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 5:234.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal, Katmandu .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Pakistan, Nepal, and N India (Punjab, Kumaon, Darjeeling, Sikkim).

SYNONYMS: lepcha , monticola , niveiventer.

COMMENTS: Nature of relationship of N. niviventer with N. confucianus to the east requires resolution in context of systematic revision of the genus, but to date "there is yet no convincing evidence that the Nepalese populations are the same as those from areas farther east in northern Burma and China " ( Musser, 1981 b:253) or from N Thailand ( Abe, 1983:160).

References

Abe, H. 1983. Variation and taxonomy of Niviventer fulvescens and notes on Niviventer group of rats in Thailand. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 9: 151 - 161.

Musser, G. G. 1981 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 105. Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 168: 225 - 334.