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<emphasis id="C9F61DF8D75A48A049390C799D123871" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">Niviventer niviventer</emphasis>
(Hodgson 1836)
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<taxonomicName id="40E304EEBBAAA75A690031DE1C2B7D56" ID-CoL="64J9" authority="Hodgeson 1836" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1424" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="401CFFB05B9E53DCFD6C37455BAFC061" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">[Mus] niviventer</emphasis>
Hodgeson 1836
</taxonomicName>
,
<bibCitation id="F090F1DD2EC6996BFD95763649C9002A" author="Hodgson" journal="J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal" pageNumber="1424" pagination="234" title="Mus niviventer" volume="5" year="1836">J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 5: 234</bibCitation>
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.
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<paragraph id="6A21A6DDC987A1484A1A2AF40B83312A" pageNumber="1424">
<emphasis id="F109FF00D5678E789FA5C1CC83FC436B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="628837BA9BC1375684E60F3AE1382AE4" name="Nepal">Nepal</collectingCountry>
, Katmandu.
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<paragraph id="472426AC912E0A8A967768B900A0B1BA" pageNumber="1424">
<emphasis id="19682AD24002C99561C58A4E42D4C271" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="D6FE7438FCF9C1EEA8DA72C032DEB217" language="eng" pageNumber="1424">Himalayan Niviventer</vernacularName>
.
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<emphasis id="3F30CC756EE016D027ABEB26B873C461" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A13C2EF0585FFEE5DDD9AD22935AEF78" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">Niviventer lepcha</emphasis>
(Wroughton 1916)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="6EA7B1B0AF0D8F38FC291B9959BC2DE1" authority="(Ghose 1964)" baseAuthorityName="Ghose" baseAuthorityYear="1964" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1424" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="monticola">
<emphasis id="9EBD6E509B77ACBB6B207C9942DCBE9E" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">Niviventer monticola</emphasis>
(Ghose 1964)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="296824CF27015E6DE9DB48F469F62E4F" authority="(Blanford 1891)" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1891" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1424" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niveiventer">
<emphasis id="7A6D2A7D7B573B4D571D003839CB9059" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">Niviventer niveiventer</emphasis>
(Blanford 1891)
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="C79B93187CAA8B63B79974A3943E5182" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Distribution:</emphasis>
Himalayas in montane habitats from N
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(
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359793), through NW
<collectingCountry id="61267FE3B5C14DE743A5A0A4EF148DB3" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
(
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), and
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to NE
<collectingCountry id="EC002358D721A0A52802512B045B49F6" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
in
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and higher altitudes of
<collectingRegion id="E82EFDD8D119AB8554A88A63E36A28FE" country="India" name="West Bengal">West Bengal</collectingRegion>
(Darjiling Dist.);
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EB90B120CD22DCD330B6510B199D12F8" author="Abe, H." refId="ref204" refString="Abe, H. 1977. Variation and taxonomy of some small mammals from central Nepal. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 7 (2): 63 - 73." year="1977">Abe, 1977</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="16C1693325CC7154FF11B2EC794FD0FE" author="Agrawal, V. C." refId="ref2022" refString="Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp." year="2000">Agrawal, 2000</bibRefCitation>
). Range derived from Mussers study of specimens (in
<collectionCode id="DD6359418C239FB1214DFC36FFA0478D">BMNH</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="1E5E4908BC266B4B2286DBD65CD93E3D">HUNHM</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="32A94DA3A78B22C1D09B3A3494D77C62" country="Canada" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34778" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34778" name="Royal Ontario Museum" type="Museum">ROM</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="252BDB23F1B274A4C34A5AAF62CA7139" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
, and
<collectionCode id="C135172503EB7AFBEEC47437A3D7E812" country="Germany" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34613" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34613" name="Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig" type="Museum">ZFMK</collectionCode>
), which coincides with that outlined by
<bibRefCitation id="3F95EEFBC82093473D6351FAF88C3853" author="Corbet, G. B. &amp; J. E. Hill" refId="ref67955" refString="Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp." year="1992">Corbet and Hill (1992)</bibRefCitation>
but not
<bibRefCitation id="0DF7B0B8302E6772167D53F7C3654218" author="Agrawal, V. C." refId="ref2022" refString="Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp." year="2000">Agrawal (2000</bibRefCitation>
; see below).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5B7CB5F382FA545732398D276E310975" pageNumber="1424" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="61094ED752DCD3ED2F8DD8061F29BF2B" pageNumber="1424">
<emphasis id="AD1BF7BC5619E2097AB5819C3FEF9FF4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="B7837B17738DF30FE96ACEC874AD703F">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="DE8F30126B56FEE8D369C2D8CC213E51" pageNumber="1424" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="3839F11D2FBC7148DF6364598AF257C0" pageNumber="1424">
<emphasis id="489C4583F2D1230FD9A928D5E9A56457" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1424">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="80D2C00E33229366A44B8F532E857CD0" pageNumber="1424">
Recognized as a species since
<bibRefCitation id="A81D7A326C833AB802D0534E64196E2B" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman (1941)</bibRefCitation>
;
<taxonomicName id="A2BE8363734FF81B8063453081A6E469" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="F42880AFF4AC5A7E3D37250341595CCD" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
later came to embrace populations extending from
<collectingCountry id="5FDF63585FF317A43A8260F1610C4951" name="Nepal">Nepal</collectingCountry>
through Indochina, Malay Peninsula, and some islands on the Sunda Shelf (
<bibRefCitation id="5DB20FA394AADD2BC07BC98DD7AE2596" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref93118" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884." year="1961">Ellerman, 1961</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4E0F2983BAB21D99902AA7FAE7B326E4" author="Ellerman, J. R. &amp; T. C. S. Morrison-Scott" refId="ref93180" refString="Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp." year="1951">Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="D809F17AC5873ACC9C76D714F323AB50" author="Niethammer, J. &amp; J. Martens" refId="ref260883" refString="Niethammer, J., and J. Martens. 1975. Die Gattungen Rattus und Maxomys in Afghanistan und Nepal. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 40: 325 - 355." year="1975">Niethammer and Martens, 1975</bibRefCitation>
); some of the names associated with
<taxonomicName id="E44ADC4910A4D1C31F2696966501BF20" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="5A3E7250BC0E48863B0C0DC2249E6881" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in those reports now identify separate species or are synonyms of others (
<taxonomicName id="0691FBF775BE12907A1AC33EACFDDB05" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confucianus">
<emphasis id="15CB8F007C011E7AE33B8191A0F9A60C" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. confucianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="A6E7CB74C564E583EDA2FF38FC9FB141" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="culturatus">
<emphasis id="7245436C4CA63CD59EC7BC8492BD8C2E" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. culturatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B86FFCDDA96CA5F2BF330C214830E013" baseAuthorityName="Abe" baseAuthorityYear="1983" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fulvescens">
<emphasis id="83127DDF569369530F6B45FABF67611E" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. fulvescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="5855F54F4608E545EF064C8A1E622807" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tenaster">
<emphasis id="0EFE901AF5BDFA4ECB14832C1773A5AB" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N tenaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; see those accounts). &quot;There is yet no convincing evidence that the Nepalese populations are the same as those from areas farther east in northern
<collectingCountry id="961493F56D9509E998D7C4977B820FAE" name="Myanmar">Burma</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="833BDD826DB27CEA6220CC1DB55DB88F" name="China">China</collectingCountry>
&quot; (
<bibRefCitation id="223B3BCEBC4ECD00B5B6E4FECEB234CE" author="Musser, G. G." refId="ref251676" refString="Musser, G. G. 1981 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 105. Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 168: 225 - 334." year="1981">
Musser, 1981
<emphasis id="BB20CEBDBAA94B55CFDE404BCEE9B1FC" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">b</emphasis>
:253
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), or from
<collectingCountry id="296892C1C80FC612A2DE037003FF5093" name="Thailand">Thailand</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="52CDFC062D2ABF3E1870622C6B061E58" author="Abe, H." refId="ref271" refString="Abe, H. 1983. Variation and taxonomy of Niviventer fulvescens and notes on Niviventer group of rats in Thailand. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 9: 151 - 161." year="1983">Abe, 1983:160</bibRefCitation>
), or anywhere else in Indochina or on the Sunda Shelf. Multivariate analysis of morphometric traits incorporating samples of most named forms in
<taxonomicName id="344A6EA59FC0C315A2F8554214DEDCE6" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="386BC42C9A785C1816FF3ACEC58C3A88" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">Niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
isolates
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<emphasis id="8F8AE00F50C5DFC94969BEA94D82ED23" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
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from clusters containing the four species listed above (Musser and Lunde, ms).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C6D9C7E3B05CD0757CFA177C7DDEB735" pageNumber="1424">
Our study of specimens in museum collections indicates the geographic distribution of
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<emphasis id="067ED03F6246CF150D7DEE0AE4718F7B" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be strictly Himalayan as outlined by
<bibRefCitation id="1E13DE9C83F66D9FC8E94ACF7D9C1915" author="Corbet, G. B. &amp; J. E. Hill" refId="ref67955" refString="Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp." year="1992">Corbet and Hill (1992)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation id="2B8E84F757F3E2AD2A7462D47F5BBA30" author="Agrawal, V. C." refId="ref2022" refString="Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp." year="2000">Agrawal (2000)</bibRefCitation>
included
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, NE
<collectingCountry id="709A0A69A721E139FB1E7FE8FDAF032D" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
(
<collectingRegion id="D96AAFA3777C78B3D573D2B071C0DF18" country="India" name="Assam">Assam</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="762FB9AAFE23AC8B581BC2E71DE64967" country="India" name="Nagaland">Nagaland</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="21ECD5BC8216C8BD63BB5EE7E85C6191" country="India" name="Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="CF34F09550930CA2EA2B0F4ABA9A3D3F" country="India" name="Meghalaya">Meghalaya</collectingRegion>
, and
<collectingRegion id="723B150F4F97D415D2C79A5D6E63AC60" country="India" name="Manipur">Manipur</collectingRegion>
), and
<collectingCountry id="62E34A3C980A1CB6A99198647ED10177" name="Myanmar">Burma</collectingCountry>
within the range of
<taxonomicName id="F707909DB807D173CA4F7FD9FC1FDE1F" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="0F0DB1B95CBE364418E6A97498B8CEEB" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but material we have seen from
<collectingCountry id="D344BF31E7BFB978BC615368B0D9AFCE" name="Myanmar">Burma</collectingCountry>
is either
<taxonomicName id="9CC5E3C3940DF161D460C24A660669E3" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confucianus">
<emphasis id="4F2C3F932DECCAE5E284931867D93D8F" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. confucianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in the north) or
<taxonomicName id="16D3F715E168595E32BC2DAF8A4B812A" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tenaster">
<emphasis id="2529C1A1109C631D650FCB040FFDF978" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. tenaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<collectionCode id="38F2D162184558EEAB38AF5FCD6D10C8">WC</collectionCode>
and S
<collectingCountry id="B68131D869954632B3311BD233289342" name="Myanmar">Burma</collectingCountry>
; see those accounts), and samples from NE
<collectingCountry id="FE121957A96DE2C6A8A949DCD3DAE45A" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
are
<taxonomicName id="DF78854D37B1A0197E36CAF9384ACC52" baseAuthorityName="Abe" baseAuthorityYear="1983" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fulvescens">
<emphasis id="E1719604A33CB172A7CC12594786471E" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. fulvescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; we have not seen Agrawals material in
<collectionCode id="9EF2DABC604F22D92F10CAB893754D7B">ZSI</collectionCode>
. Agrawal noted that specimens from NE
<collectingCountry id="E8B90393435E72F12303DF3B558BBF9F" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
are larger than those from
<collectingCountry id="0FA88EE690C7F967F7B08FB00F706BE0" name="Nepal">Nepal</collectingCountry>
and Sikkim, and we suspect they may represent
<taxonomicName id="7B3009391C092AF88CB44B819D893B0A" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confucianus">
<emphasis id="EF5EEABA03D29EF8FF3810259ADA2BD1" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. confucianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which is a larger animal (Musser and Lunde, ms), or even misidentified
<taxonomicName id="3FC4C435577DCE8AB34ADBEFBEB47D75" baseAuthorityName="Abe" baseAuthorityYear="1983" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fulvescens">
<emphasis id="21C9B20F05CA44D13DECFC7801D86BFE" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. fulvescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. To finally resolve easternmost limits of
<taxonomicName id="438E1C418A79F71B2C35E5E3F9EAC8D9" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="815B707930B8A270FEA78CC56C242884" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and westernmost of
<taxonomicName id="C782A5C88F4382974A7AED1720482ABF" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confucianus">
<emphasis id="228225713970A3639CB693D269D8DF50" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. confucianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
will require reexamination of Agrawals series from NE
<collectingCountry id="24550D057A2B74252550BE608B41A071" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
. Biology, habitats, morphological variation, and taxonomy reported by
<bibRefCitation id="712F9C10F1747B58DD849977F2161E7D" author="Abe, H." refId="ref76" refString="Abe, H. 1971. Small mammals of central Nepal. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 56: 367 - 423." year="1971">Abe (1971</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="0CDBE96C8AFAEE439B9D60C00486724B" author="Abe, H." refId="ref204" refString="Abe, H. 1977. Variation and taxonomy of some small mammals from central Nepal. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 7 (2): 63 - 73." year="1977">1977</bibRefCitation>
) for samples of
<taxonomicName id="6EC0C88DD78EA247E91CC423B2FF6E90" authorityName="Hodgeson" authorityYear="1836" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">
<emphasis id="79875C40B124E496242F06C8845D04F7" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from C
<collectingCountry id="0349720A07762FF0FB62177C72B2E711" name="Nepal">Nepal</collectingCountry>
. See account of
<taxonomicName id="5ED1B26B9394B013900D0C105677431C" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confucianus">
<emphasis id="5B3664E2B856EE507FA4002CD167C610" italics="true" pageNumber="1424">N. confucianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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