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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Pithecheirops
SPECIES Pithecheirops otion
Author: | Emmons, 1993. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 106: 753. | Common Name: | Bornean Pithecheirops | Type Locality: | Malaysia, Sabah (N Borneo), Danum Valley Field Centre, 150 m (see Emmons, 1993b, for more information). | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | Comments: | Described from a single juvenile collected in "dense viny roadside secondary brush on an abandoned logging road" in what was primary lowland dipterocarp forest, which still persists "within 600 m and is the dominant vegetation type of the entire surrounding region" (Emmons, 1993b:753). Member of a group of murines endemic to Borneo (see account of Chiropodomys major). |
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