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 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Mus (Pyromys) platythrix Bennett 1832 Mus (Pyromys) platythrix Bennett 1832 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832: 121 . Type Locality: Peninsular India , Dukhun (=Deccan). Vernacular Names: Flat-haired Mouse . Synonyms: Mus (Pyromys) bahadur (Wroughton and Ryley 1913) ; Mus (Pyromys) grahami (Ryley 1913) ; Mus (Pyromys) hannyngtoni (Ryley 1913) . Distribution: Peninsular India north to West Bengal ( Agrawal, 2000 ; Corbet and Hill, 1992 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Pyromys . Close relationship with M. saxicola , also in subgenus Coelomys , substantiated by analyses of DNA/DNA hybridization and mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences, but not morphological traits ( Chevret et al., 2003 ). May be more than one species within present definition of M. platythrix . Samples from the northwest have 2n = 30, those from S India have 2n = 26, but "the limits of these forms and any correlation with morphological characters have not been defined" ( Corbet and Hill, 1992:330 ). Another Indian endemic revised by J. T . Marshall, Jr. (1977 b ) and reviewed by Agrawal (2000) . Occurrence and ecology in the Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan State documented by Prakash et al. (1995 a , b , c ), and in the Western Ghats of S India by Chandrasekar-Rao and Sunquist (1996) . Roberts (1977 , 1997) reported M. platythrix from S Pakistan , but that record probably represents M. saxicola , which occurs in India and S Pakistan ( Corbet and Hill, 1992:328 ).