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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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