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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
--> GENUS Eliurus
SPECIES Eliurus webbi
Author: | Ellerman, 1949. | Citation: | Families and Genera of Living Rodents, 3(App. II): 163. | Common Name: | Webb’s Tufted-tailed Rat | Type Locality: | Madagascar, Fianarantsoa Prov., 20 mi (32 km) S Farafangana. | Distribution: | Lowland rainforest, sea level-1150 m, E Madagascar, from Montagne d’Ambre in the north to southernmost reaches of the Anosyenne and Vohimena Mountains, including littoral forests in the extreme southeast. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Geographic variation evaluated by Carleton and Goodman (2000). Sister species of E. tanala according to phylogenetic interpretation of mitochondrial DNA sequences (Jansa et al., 1999). |
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