HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
--> GENUS Brachyuromys
SPECIES Brachyuromys betsileoensis
Author: | Bartlett, 1879. | Actual Date: | 1880 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879: 770. | Common Name: | Lesser Short-tailed Rat | Type Locality: | Madagascar, "S.E. Betsileo." | Distribution: | Central Highlands and its eastern fringes, ca. 900-2450 m, Madagascar. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Described as a species of Nesomys but referred to Brachyuromys by Major (1896). Occurs sympatrically with B. ramirohitra (Goodman and Rasolonandrasana, 2001). |
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