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J.
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NE
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,
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Red-backed Vole
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.
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<emphasis id="1C96044282478CF002EA4DB0F5E702E8" italics="true" pageNumber="978">Eothenomys confinii</emphasis>
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Montane forest,
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(
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Thomas,
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1921
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, the
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;
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), and adjacent NW Yunnan (
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of
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<emphasis id="2FAC5C3BA92A724430E5D38294768ECE" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="38E46C0FDCBB3EDFB6EC6713A73398DC" author="Hinton, M. A. C." refId="ref153971" refString="Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162." year="1923">Hinton, 1923</bibRefCitation>
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); range may extend farther south to extreme W Yunnan and
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.
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<emphasis id="AC6B88BEA9463BFD16F5BD1771650B74" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
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species group. Described by
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Thomas (
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1921
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)
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as a species but subsequently included either in
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<emphasis id="43D08411CFF7B6EFE2C833CE2331E79E" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
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(
<bibRefCitation id="DD9D07BD776D2DC841B36B6DB26A305F" author="Hinton, M. A. C." refId="ref153971" refString="Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162." year="1923">Hinton, 1923</bibRefCitation>
;
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,
<bibRefCitation id="5D5E7F9F9429C6EBA0BC3C670A0ACDF7" 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">1961</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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Corbet, 1978
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="41DB56EA868A66E1C78DDE891B1F5B1D" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya &amp; E. L. Yakhontov &amp; A. K. Agadzhanyan" refId="ref278176" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian)." year="1995">
Pavlinov et al., 1995
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) or
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<emphasis id="0F1F404B4187AA638D4051E1CD950A71" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
(
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. Comparisons of Anthonys (1941) large
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sample, obtained at the type locality of
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and vicinity, with
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and
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proper confirm Thomas view that
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is a distinctive species. Adult
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are large-bodied and long-tailed, with soft, long and thick fur, the upperparts bright tawny brown and the underparts gray washed with hues ranging from pale buff to ochraceous (the only species in the
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group with such bright venters). They are about the same body size as the large
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, but have longer tails (mean = 50.9 mm, range =
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(43.6 mm,
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,
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= 39) and
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<emphasis id="78636EF65D175B88E410ADEF1BA64740" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
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(36.1 mm,
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,
<emphasis id="CA3EE3D879586043C4D79A4926A8AFC3" italics="true" pageNumber="978">n</emphasis>
= 34); no other species in the
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<emphasis id="F8ABA722019E5E860A893C0F06B471A5" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
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group has such a long tail. Compared with
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<emphasis id="FC1F174990574B201D8DD159AEDD52EA" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
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, cranium of
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<emphasis id="1504911CE75FD1A6C0F17DD2C2CC8B0B" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
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is slightly smaller in length and width dimensions and strikingly much lower in profile (flattened compared with the high, arched and stocky cranium of
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<emphasis id="13783AB6CA1E00D9E377A6B73F0F80F2" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); M3 has four lingual salient angles (like
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<emphasis id="805451D39C519784CE9256669B3421D8" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), but also four labial angles in 95 of
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(three in
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<emphasis id="0BF9FBAAB963D4F38F201E4675C76DE4" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Occlusal pattern consists of a single anterior lamina, two inverted chevron-shaped laminae, and an irregularly-shaped heel, while all other forms have only two anterior laminae and a heel with an angular labial projection.
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Thomas (
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1921
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)
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clearly described the M3 pattern in
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<emphasis id="B7485A5383699980E8EFC69EE82D0474" italics="true" pageNumber="978">cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="438532A855F191E949253CD0202AAACA" author="Hinton, M. A. C." refId="ref153971" refString="Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162." year="1923">Hinton (1923)</bibRefCitation>
used it to separate
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<emphasis id="964A7E5539C62FA41F962A5D2642325B" italics="true" pageNumber="978">cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from other forms of
<taxonomicName id="51A4B0EC5B6B227A3F9459D22B74A33F" baseAuthorityName="Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1871" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanogaster">
<emphasis id="49B5F2107A05E63DA653BB2237B176A4" italics="true" pageNumber="978">melanogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in his key to
<taxonomicName id="BAB03905F79E8B7264D75A1B5D947525" authorityName=", Corbet" authorityYear="1978" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="10AACCE98AAFBDB22ADCCC800DB766DF" italics="true" pageNumber="978">Eothenomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B42FBFF08E9190B5E46B8F402ADC7CB9" pageNumber="978">
We synonymize the NW Yunnan
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<emphasis id="639EDE1021AD61AB6CBA16BF30FDDB8F" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with
<taxonomicName id="D6CD6036EC6ED8697E3B7EE7E72D279A" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cachinus">
<emphasis id="A47BCC2B9EBEC282E940D7F1DA437F88" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in contrast to its peripatetic association under
<taxonomicName id="E2AA5DA8AA93A2D87A0661844D7F95E5" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1911" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="eleusis">
<emphasis id="1C75AC6BCD89B17CA69C8215BD3C1E5C" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. eleusis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(G. M. Allen, 1940;
<bibRefCitation id="84FC99D18752044880EF0ECCC87AF2DC" author="Zhang, Y. &amp; S. Jin &amp; G. Quan &amp; S. Li &amp; Z. Ye &amp; F. Wang &amp; M. Zhang" refId="ref405616" refString="Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp." year="1997">Zhang et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="9EFC58BF1512CFAE62E04CCA55079953" authority="(Corbet and Hill, 1992)" baseAuthorityName="Corbet and Hill" baseAuthorityYear="1992" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanogaster">
<emphasis id="44AF5B89DC495A9FD471486442A22B13" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="BCCAFB127AA9D43796F01A660F146038" 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>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="0E65F1F78DCA88EB88A160C66BFC1DFC" authority="(Kaneko, 2002)" baseAuthorityName="Kaneko" baseAuthorityYear="2002" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mucronatus">
<emphasis id="259B01ECB0DAAAD0E404934AC18C7F63" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. mucronatus</emphasis>
(Kaneko, 2002)
</taxonomicName>
, or
<taxonomicName id="6C3C7A4CE0C29069636DB9C8D72AC40E" authority="(Ye et al., 2002)" baseAuthorityName="Ye" baseAuthorityYear="2002" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miletus">
<emphasis id="12F88DC2D09786CA287496E3CD13267D" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="DB870B641C3A248984C7C1634FD5F9CD" author="Ye, X. - D. &amp; Y. Ma &amp; J. - S. Zhang &amp; Z. - L. Wang &amp; Z. - K. Wang" refId="ref398858" refString="Ye, X. - D., Y. Ma, J. - S. Zhang, Z. - L. Wang, and Z. - K. Wang. 2002. [A summary of Eothenomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Microtinae).] Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 27 (1): 173 - 182 (in Chinese with English summary)." year="2002">Ye et al., 2002</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Hintons (1923) description of the pelage and tail length (
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) matches that of
<taxonomicName id="84ABAEA0F15D55DFF314C670221129D6" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cachinus">
<emphasis id="FFD7668E57F1C567BB657BD95CA1A66A" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, his cranial differences between
<taxonomicName id="9E9D4AE5761680B9A643A7ED4D196611" authorityName="Hinton" authorityYear="1923" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confinii">
<emphasis id="6A998DC9BD38C20555529EE49E75EE4F" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="11576B7F642D78F2BD07EA77F21DC132" italics="true" pageNumber="978">miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
precisely distinguish
<taxonomicName id="2848E7B22B3DC8F66634D7A1BEB9F596" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cachinus">
<emphasis id="9736B91A5A43A51DADE4755CBEE80E17" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<taxonomicName id="55746F25FADD3ECCD14682DB1EB287BC" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miletus">
<emphasis id="037657BFEDAF438E98E6605E9889279A" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="702870B626512570A821539AA3842F3C" authorityName="Hinton" authorityYear="1923" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confinii">
<emphasis id="8B5F62EC33A5364E709F64346A7D3651" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
too was obtained west of the Salween River Valley adjacent to the region where
<bibRefCitation id="5DE7A8435101E7533AF9E6AF7769F225" author="Anthony, H. E." refId="ref11622" refString="Anthony, H. E. 1941. Mammals collected by the Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 27: 37 - 123." year="1941">Anthony (1941)</bibRefCitation>
worked. Kaneko (2002) relegated both
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<emphasis id="684A7B35FC727DD1C49CA04330EA929B" italics="true" pageNumber="978">cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="3D5465483A37EF3A38C4140C2D66262D" authorityName="Hinton" authorityYear="1923" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="confinii">
<emphasis id="936518622643A4FCCCDA02021BFCEBB0" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, along with
<taxonomicName id="D06BBCB7589E95ED9213EFE3668AEC80" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miletus">
<emphasis id="20FDAD35B9C98968AA4C0C02D9034311" italics="true" pageNumber="978">miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, to
<taxonomicName id="D204A27E8BE6CD2AAE2EC15809F4A04C" baseAuthorityName="Kaneko" baseAuthorityYear="2002" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mucronatus">
<emphasis id="9D688AABBE139E770D9ADAEC22D7CCAE" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. mucronatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(here considered a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName id="5F55B3B9CB6F4762EC85D91F6A671E61" baseAuthorityName="Corbet and Hill" baseAuthorityYear="1992" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanogaster">
<emphasis id="3DDABB7B3B42274DA99005FDA937B55D" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; see below). Examination of the same specimens studied by Kaneko (2002) supplies no morphological evidence for considering the three taxa as members of a single species. Specimens of
<taxonomicName id="37066B486D58A1D114AED6AF518F8CEC" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cachinus">
<emphasis id="EFB584197605A8DE52E85FC4D53DAA7C" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(including
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<emphasis id="5131CE9B07E7028B736FAB35EF0CBEDC" italics="true" pageNumber="978">confinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and
<taxonomicName id="552984AF1C9DFF12392E597A0250A58C" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miletus">
<emphasis id="66618D291AE4310D82A41055AF54F241" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. miletus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be consistently separated by cranial conformation and relative tail length (comparing specimens of similar age), as previously indicated.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6DF008E6B8E9BC9E8A557B0C5559322D" pageNumber="978">
In NE
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,
<bibRefCitation id="336AD3B67FD94BDD6730CE4330725D6A" author="Anthony, H. E." refId="ref11622" refString="Anthony, H. E. 1941. Mammals collected by the Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 27: 37 - 123." year="1941">Anthony (1941)</bibRefCitation>
encountered
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<emphasis id="9126267ED20A38A659DF15E6F09223A9" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(identified as
<taxonomicName id="A890335279878A1156AD94C3B21A4A52" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="melanogaster" subSpecies="cachinus">
<emphasis id="4B05E4BD56AE085FEF0BC1C7AB106750" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in heavy forest,
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, and found the smaller
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<emphasis id="4A8EBCD884FFD128C7B6C2EF883E51CF" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(reported as
<emphasis id="448917605341A08B43B9DABB39B34495" italics="true" pageNumber="978">
E. m.
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</emphasis>
) at lower elevations, 1200-2750, in open habitats (meadows, near cultivation, and shrubby growth along streams). This region of
<collectingCountry id="420DBA1FC4F3FB2FC81678A9CD3C305B" name="Myanmar">Burma</collectingCountry>
also harbors two endemic murines,
<taxonomicName id="670912C16A3EF9F888E12886007E51CF" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1914" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Niviventer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brahma">
<emphasis id="A156BBF4B301D11FFABAAD086218EB75" italics="true" pageNumber="978">Niviventer brahma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="F7C95387B16437C4F2BC8BCAA07C1183" author="Musser, G. G." refId="ref250914" refString="Musser, G. G. 1970 b. Species-limits of Rattus brahma, a murid rodent of Northeastern India and Northern Burma. American Museum Novitates, 2406: 27." year="1970">
Musser, 1970
<bibRefCitation id="634FD69B20650145D0D2E79846930BC4" author="Mursaloglu, B." refId="ref250611" refString="Mursaloglu, B. 1973 a. Turkiye ' nin yabani memelileri. IV Blim Kongresi 6 - 8 Kasim 1973, Ankara, pp. 1 - 10." year="1973">
<emphasis id="33A6FD2E432926D9EDE99F31DC6BA561" italics="true" pageNumber="978">b</emphasis>
, 1973
<emphasis id="2D1E6569E9697065C9CD55FF641A4796" italics="true" pageNumber="978">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
</bibRefCitation>
) and an undescribed species of
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<emphasis id="5649D454B59D38A70091970248BD3BCA" italics="true" pageNumber="978">Niviventer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Musser and Lunde, ms). Curiously,
<bibRefCitation id="4ECE3692E661A5F3704548B54362D123" author="Zhang, Y. &amp; S. Jin &amp; G. Quan &amp; S. Li &amp; Z. Ye &amp; F. Wang &amp; M. Zhang" refId="ref405616" refString="Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp." year="1997">Zhang et al. (1997)</bibRefCitation>
listed
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<emphasis id="2758507163F4B87861949933AE6AB347" italics="true" pageNumber="978">cachinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
both as a separate species and as a synonym of
<taxonomicName id="7E069B4DE833ADC3BD73F7469A4B7FD4" baseAuthorityName="Corbet and Hill" baseAuthorityYear="1992" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Eothenomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanogaster">
<emphasis id="BF934AF7CD264638F71ABFDD39ED49FE" italics="true" pageNumber="978">E. melanogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The specimens that
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recorded from N
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are
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.
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