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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mus
--> SUBGENUS Pyromys
SPECIES Mus (Pyromys) phillipsi
| Author: | Wroughton, 1912. | | Citation: | J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 21: 772. | | Common Name: | Phillips’s Mouse | | Type Locality: | India, Central Province, Nimur Dist., Asirgarh, 1500 ft (458 m). | | Distribution: | S and WC Peninsular India (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu; Agrawal, 2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Pyromys. An Indian endemic revised by J. T. Marshall, Jr. (1977b) and reviewed by Agrawal (2000). Its occurrence and ecology in the Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan State documented by Prakash et al. (1995a, b, c), and in Gujarat State by Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
siva (Thomas and Ryley, 1913)
surkha (Wroughton and Ryley, 1913)
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