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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Srilankamys
SPECIES Srilankamys ohiensis
| Author: | Phillips, 1929. | | Citation: | Ceylon J. Sci., Sec. B, 15: 167. | | Common Name: | Phillips’s Srilankamys | | Type Locality: | Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Ohiya, W Haputale, 6000 ft (1830 m). | | Distribution: | Primary lowland tropical and montane evergreen rainforest formations on mountains in Uva and Central Provinces of Sri Lanka between 915 and 2135 m (Phillips, 1980). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Musser (1981b) described the history of past and incorrect allocations of ohiensis to groups that are now recognized as Apomys, Lenothrix, Leopoldamys, Maxomys, Niviventer, and Rattus. |
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