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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
--> GENUS Brachyuromys
SPECIES Brachyuromys betsileoensis
| Author: | Bartlett, 1879. | | Actual Date: | 1880 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879: 770. | | Common Name: | Lesser Short-tailed Rat | | Type Locality: | Madagascar, "S.E. Betsileo." | | Distribution: | Central Highlands and its eastern fringes, ca. 900-2450 m, Madagascar. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Described as a species of Nesomys but referred to Brachyuromys by Major (1896). Occurs sympatrically with B. ramirohitra (Goodman and Rasolonandrasana, 2001). |
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