Niviventer confucianus

Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871). Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7, Bull.:93. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin. DISTRIBUTION: N Burma, N Thailand, and highlands of China north to Jilin Prov.; limits uncertain. SYNONYMS: canorus, chihliensis, elegans, littoreus, luticolor, mentosus, naoniuensis, sacer, sinianus, yaoshanensis, yushuensis, zappeyi. COMMENTS: Wang and Zheng (1981) reported results from a systematic study under the name of Rattus niviventer, and described yushuensis as a subspecies. Zhang and Zhao (1984) proposed naoniuensis as a subspecies. Usually included in N. niviventer, but that allocation is not supported by present evidence (Abe, 1983; Musser, 1981b). Geographic and elevational relationships between northern N. confucianus and southern N. fulvescens, especially in W and S China, needs to be resolved by careful taxonomic revision.
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & 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 on page 633, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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