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 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Nesokia indica (Gray and Hardwicke, 1830) . Illustr. Indian Zool., 1:pl. 11 . TYPE LOCALITY: India (uncertain) . DISTRIBUTION: Modern range covers Bangladesh , NE India ( Bihar ), NW India (Kumaon and Rajputana), Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iran , Iraq , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Israel , NE Egypt , NW China ( Xinjiang ), Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , and Tadzhikistan . Late Pleistocene sites are beyond modern range in Egypt and in N Sudan ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980 ). SYNONYMS: bacheri , bailwardi , beaba , boettgeri , brachyura , buxtoni , chitralensis, dukelskiana , griffithi , hardwickei , huttoni , insularis , legendrei , myosura, satunini, scullyi , suilla . COMMENTS: Chromosomal data in different contexts reported by Thelma and Rao (1982) , Rao et al. (1983) , Juyal et al. (1989) , and Dubey and Raman (1992) . External, cranial, and dental morphology supported a close phylogenetic relationship with Bandicota ( Misonne, 1969 ; Niethammer, 1977 ; Wroughton, 1908), and electrophoretic comparisons of eight loci indicated a sister-species alliance with B. indica ( Radtke and Niethammer, 1984 / 85). Substantial morphological variation is present among geographic samples of N. indica , and careful systematic revision is required to determine whether this variation represents one or more species.