Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
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1531
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Dacnomys millardi
Thomas 1916
Dacnomys millardi
Thomas 1916
,
J.
Bombay
Nat. Hist. Soc., 24 (3): 404
.
Type Locality:
India
,
West Bengal
, near Darjeeling, Gopaldhara,
3440 ft
(
1050 m
).
Vernacular Names:
Millard's Dacnomys
.
Synonyms:
Dacnomys ingens
Osgood 1932
;
Dacnomys wroughtoni
Thomas 1922
.
Distribution:
E
Nepal
(specimens in
FMNH
), NE
India
(
West Bengal
,
Nagaland
, and
Arunachal Pradesh
;
Agrawal, 2000
), N
Laos
, NW
Vietnam
(only west of the Red River; specimens in
FMNH
and
MVZ
), and S
China
(S and NW
Yunnan
; Li et al., 1987;
Wang, 2003
;
Zhang et al., 1997
); probably occurs over a wider geographic range (N
Burma
, for example;
Musser, 1981
b
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
The few known specimens show appreciable variation in body size, but as
Corbet and Hill (1992:360)
noted, "too few specimens are available to assess the overall variation." Reviewed by
Osgood (1932)
,
Agrawal (2000)
,
Corbet and Hill (1992)
, and
Musser (1981
b
)
.