Niviventer fulvescens
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Niviventer
Niviventer fulvescens

description: <i>Niviventer fulvescens</i> (Gray, 1847). Cat. Hodgson Coll. Br. Mus., p. 18. TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal. DISTRIBUTION: From S Himalayas (Nepal and N India) through Bangladesh, S China (incl. Hainan Isl), and Indochina (incl. Con Son Isl off Vietnam) to Peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Bali. SYNONYMS: <i>baturus, besuki, blythi, bukit, caudatior, cinnamomeus, condorensis, flavipilis, gracilis, huang, jacobsoni, jerdoni, lepidus, lepturoides, lieftincki, ling, lotipes, marinus, mekongis, mentosus, minor, octomammis, orbus, pan, temmincki, treubii, vulpicolor, wongi.</i> COMMENTS: Some authors have referred to populations on the Sunda Shelf and S Indochina as <i>bukit,</i> and those occurring farther north as <i>fulvescens</i> (Chasen, 1940; J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977«; Musser, 1981 b), pending a taxonomic revision of the group. Recent study now supports the hypothesis that samples of <i>bukit</i> represent <i>N. fulvescens</i> (Abe, 1983), an arrangement reflecting the earlier view of Osgood (1932:305): "The relationship of <i>fulvescens</i> to southern forms is obvious in several instances, especially in that of <i>R. f. bukit</i> which can at most be no more than a subspecies." This hypothesis will require testing by carful systematic revision of the <i>fulvescens-bukit</i> complex. <i>Niviventer fulvescens</i> is the only member of the genus with a geographic distribution encompassing SE Asian mainland and some islands of the Sunda Shelf; other murines with roughly equivalent ranges are <i>Berylmys bowersii, Chiropodomys gliroides, Leopoldamys sabanus, L. edwardsi,</i> and <i>Maxomys surifer</i> (Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Spermatozoal morphology of Malayan <i>bukit</i> described by Breed and Yong (1986) in comparative context.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 634, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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