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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Niviventer
SPECIES Niviventer hinpoon
| Author: | J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1976. | | Citation: | Family Muridae: rats and mice [Privately printed by Government Printing Office, Bangkok]: 459. | | Common Name: | Limestone Niviventer | | Type Locality: | Thailand, Saraburi Province, Kaengkhoi Dist., "outside the entrance to the bat cave, half-way up the face of a wooded limestone cliff, 200 meters altitude." | | Distribution: | Endemic to Korat Plateau in Thailand (J. T. Marshall, Jr.; specimens in AMNH and USNM). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | See Musser (1981b) for discussion of original citation. A very distinctive species (the only one with buffy underparts) that is morphometrically most closely related to N. fulvescens (Musser and Lunde, ms). |
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