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GENUS Nesokia
| Author: | Gray, 1842. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 [check – this should be ser 1? – or year wrong?], 10: 264. | | Type Species: | Arvicola indica Gray, 1830. | | Comments: | RattusDivision. Early placed with the Philippine Phloeomys in the Phloeomyinae (Alston, 1876), but phylogenetically most closely allied to Bandicota among living murines (Corbet and Hill, 1992; Jansa et al., 1999; Musser and Brothers, 1994; Watts and Baverstock, 1994b); see generic account of Bandicota. Of the two living species in the genus, N. indica is fossorial, N. bunnii is amphibious. Earliest record of Nesokia is N. panchkulaensis from early Pleistocene Pinjor beds in the Siwaliks of N India (Raghavan, 1989). |
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| Offspring: SPECIES bunnii SPECIES indica | Synonyms:
Erythronesokia Khajuria, 1981
Nesocia Blanford, 1891
Spalacomys Peters, 1860
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