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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Millardia
SPECIES Millardia gleadowi
| Author: | Murray, 1885. | | Actual Date: | 1886 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885: 809. | | Common Name: | Sand-colored Metad | | Type Locality: | Pakistan, Clifton Plain, Karachi. | | Distribution: | S and C Pakistan on west side of Indus River (Roberts, 1977, 1997) and adjacent NW India (Agrawal, 2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | A distinctive species morphologically unlike any other Millardia and adapted to semideserts of shifting sand dunes, clay flats, and rocky hillsides. Raman and Sharma (1977) reported essentially no similarity between karyotypes of M. meltada and M. gleadowi. Its inclusion in Millardia should be reexamined. Indian population reviewed by Agrawal (2000); ecology and distribution in Gujarat State of NW India recorded by Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000). |
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