Niviventer Marshall 1976
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Niviventer

description: <i>Niviventer</i> Marshall, 1976. Family Muridae: rats and mice. Government Printing Office, Bangkok, p. 402. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus niviventer</i> Hodgeson, 1836. COMMENTS: Diagnosed and contrasted with other Indo-Sundaic genera by Musser (1981 b), who also reviewed morphological, chromosomal, and distributional information. Morphological and geographic aspects of seven species <i>(andersoni, brahma, cremoriventer, eha, excelsior, hinpoon,</i> and <i>langbianis)</i> are defined; limits of the others <i>(confucianus, coxingi, culturatus, fulvescens, niviventer,</i> and <i>rapit)</i> require resolution by taxonomic revision. Closest phylogenetic relatives are Indochinese <i>Chiromyscus</i> and <i>Dacnomys;</i> among Sundaic genera, <i>Niviventer</i> shares dental derivations with <i>Berylmys, Leopoldamys,</i> and <i>Maxomys</i> (Musser, 1981 b; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Analyses of chromosomal data postulated chromosomal similarities among <i>Niviventer, Lenothrix,</i> and possibly <i>Maxomys,</i> and an origin from a common ancestor (Gadi and Sharma, 1983). Analyses of biochemical and morphological data for Malayan Peninsula species documented by Chan et al. (1979), who demonstrated substantial separation from <i>Rattus</i> and alliance with <i>Lenothrix</i> in protein variation,but equivocal affinities in morphological context. Spermatozoal morphology equivocal in assessing phylogenetic relationships (Breed and Yong, 1986). Phallic morphology of three Chinese taxa described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines. See Musser (1981 b) for discussion of the original citation.
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 632, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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