HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Nesokia
SPECIES Nesokia bunnii
Author: | Khajuria, 1981. | Citation: | Bull. Nat. Hist. Res. Centre, 7: 162. | Common Name: | Long-tailed Nesokia | Type Locality: | SE Iraq, Basra Province, Al-Qurna. | Distribution: | Recorded only from marshes at the confluence of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in SE Iraq. Possibly occurs in Al-Hawizeh marsh to the east straddling the Iraq-Iran border. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Originally described under genus Erythronesokia by Khajuria (1981), but shown to be a distinctive species of Nesokia by Al-Robaae and Felten (1990). The meager available ecological information about this unique Nesokia is reported by Khajuria (1981) and Al-Robaae and Felten (1990). Because the vast wetlands of southern Iraq were largely destroyed by the Saddam Hussein regime during the last decade (Associated Press, 2003; UNEP, 2003), current population status of N. bunnii in Iraq is unknown. |
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