HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
--> GENUS Eliurus
SPECIES Eliurus ellermani
Author: | Carleton, 1994. | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 3087: 39. | Common Name: | Ellerman’s Tufted-tailed Rat | Type Locality: | Madagascar, Toamasina Prov., near Hiaraka, about 18 km ESE Maroantsetra, 850 m; about 15º30′S, 49º56′E (as amended by Carleton and Goodman, 1998:181). | Distribution: | Known only from two widely separated localities in NE Madagascar. | Comments: | Status uncertain; provisionally retained as distinct from the morphologically similar E. tanala (see Carleton and Goodman, 1998). |
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