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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Niviventer
SPECIES Niviventer excelsior
Author: | Thomas, 1911. | Citation: | Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911(90): 4. | Common Name: | Sichuan Niviventer | Type Locality: | SW China, W Sichuan, Tatsienlu, 9000 ft (2744 m). | Distribution: | SW China (W Sichuan, NW and C Yunnan); see Musser and Chiu (1979) and Wang (2003). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | A montane southwestern Chinese endemic apparently morphologically most closely related to N. andersoni and occurring sympatrically with it and N. confucianus (Musser, 1981b; Musser and Chiu, 1979). Early to middle Pleistocene cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region of S China have yielded fossils identified as N. excelsior (Zheng, 1993). See account of N. andersoni. In his checklist of Chinese mammals, Wang (2003:203) listed tengchongensis as simply "Deng et Wang, subsp. Nov. 2002," a subspecies of N. excelsior, but the taxon has yet to be published with a diagnosis and identification of holotype (D. Lunde, in litt., 2004). |
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