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
Leopoldamys neilli
J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976
Leopoldamys neilli
J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976
,
Family
Muridae
: rats and mice [Privately printed by Government Printing Office,
Bangkok
]: 485
.
Type Locality:
Thailand
,
Saraburi
Prov, Kaengkhoi Dist., "outside the entrance to the bat cave, half-way up the face of a wooded limestone cliff, 200 meters altitude."
.
Vernacular Names:
Neill's Leopoldamys
.
Distribution:
N and SW
Thailand
north of the peninsular region (J.
T
. Marshall, Jr.,1977
a
; study of specimens in
AMNH
,
BMNH
, and
USNM
); limits unresolved (may also occur in adjacent
Burma
and
Vietnam
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Endangered.
Discussion:
Documented by few specimens: three samples are from wooded limestone cliffs in
Saraburi Province
and adjacent
Kanchanaburi Province
in the southwest (J.
T
. Marshall, Jr., 1977
a
; specimens in
AMNH
and
USNM
), one comes from lowland bamboo forest in a different part of
Kanchanaburi Province
(
Wiles, 1981
), and a fourth consists of owl pellet fragments collected in
Loei Province
in the north (
BMNH
94.374). Phylogenetic relationship of
L. neilli
to other extant members of
Leopoldamys
requires resolution by systematic revision employing morphological and molecular data. See
Musser (1981
b
:237)
for discussion of original publication.