Niviventer

Niviventer
Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Dark-tailed tree rat (Niviventer cremoriventer)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Rattini
Genus:
J. T. Marshall, 1976
Type species
Mus niviventer
Species

18, see text

Niviventer is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Southeast Asia. It contains the following species:[1]

  • Anderson's white-bellied rat, Niviventer andersoni
  • Brahma white-bellied rat, Niviventer brahma
  • Niviventer bukit [2]
  • Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat, Niviventer cameroni
  • Chinese white-bellied rat, Niviventer confucianus
  • Coxing's white-bellied rat, Niviventer coninga
  • Dark-tailed tree rat, Niviventer cremoriventer
  • Oldfield white-bellied rat, Niviventer culturatus
  • Smoke-bellied rat, Niviventer eha
  • Large white-bellied rat, Niviventer excelsior
  • Tibetan white-bellied rat, Niviventer fengi[3]
  • Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat, Niviventer fraternus
  • Chestnut white-bellied rat, Niviventer fulvescens
  • Limestone rat, Niviventer hinpoon
  • Niviventer huang [2]
  • Lang Bian white-bellied rat, Niviventer langbianis
  • Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat, Niviventer lepturus
  • Hainan white-bellied rat, Niviventer lotipes (Allen, 1926) (formerly in N. tenaster)
  • Mekong white-bellied rat, Niviventer mekongis[3]
  • White-bellied rat, Niviventer niviventer
  • Long-tailed mountain rat, Niviventer rapit
  • Tenasserim white-bellied rat, Niviventer tenaster

References

  1. ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ a b Balakirev AE, Abramov AV, Rozhnov VV (2012). "Taxonomic revision of Niviventer (Rodentia, Muridae) from Vietnam: a morphological and molecular approach". Russian Journal of Theriology. 10: 1–26. doi:10.15298/rusjtheriol.10.1.01. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b Ge, Deyan; Feijo A; Abramov AV; Wen Z; Liu Z; Cheng J; Xia L; Lu L; Yang Q (2020). "Molecular phylogeny and morphological diversity of the Niviventer fulvescens species complex with emphasis on species from China". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191 (2): 528–547. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa040. Retrieved 17 May 2020.


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