Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
501
755
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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Pithecheir parvus
Kloss, 1916
.
J. Fed. Malay St. Mus., 6:250
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Malay Peninsula,
Selangor
,
Bukit Kutu
, near Kuala Kubu,
3,400 ft
.
DISTRIBUTION: Malay Peninsula (
Pahang
and
Selangor
).
COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of
P. melanurus
,
but is a distinctive species endemic to Malay Peninsula (
Musser and Newcomb, 1983
;
Muul and Lim, 1971
). Karyotype has same diploid number as
Hapalomys longicaudus
,
but is uninformative about inferring phylogenetic relationships (Yong, et al., 1982). Spermatozoal morphology very distinctive (no apical hook), unlike that of any other Sundaic endemic (
Breed and Yong, 1986
), and resembles sperm of Sulawesian
Lenomys
and
Eropeplus
(
Breed and Musser, 1991
)
.