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Sichuan Niviventer
Niviventer excelsior (Thomas, 1911)
Also calledChuanxi Baifushu (zho) · Rat du Sichuan (fra) · Sichuan-Weilbauchratte (deu) · białobrzuch syczuański (pol) · krysa vysoká (ces) · sichuaninrattuli (fin) · Сычуаньская крыса (rus) · シナクリゲネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1911 90 p.4
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discussion
Discussion: A montane southwestern Chinese endemic apparently morphologically most closely related to N. andersoni and occurring sympatrically with it and N. confucianus (Musser, 1981 b; Musser and Chiu, 1979). Early to middle Pleistocene cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region of S China have yielded fossils identified as N. excelsior (Zheng, 1993). See account of N. andersoni. In his checklist of Chinese mammals, Wang (2003: 203) listed tengchongensis as simply " Deng et Wang, subsp. Nov. 2002, " a subspecies of N. excelsior, but the taxon has yet to be published with a diagnosis and identification of holotype (D. Lunde, in litt., 2004).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: SW China (W Sichuan, NW and C Yunnan); see Musser and Chiu (1979) and Wang (2003).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: SW China, W Sichuan, Tatsienlu, 9000 ft (2744 m).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: A Sichuan endemic related to and occurring sympatrically with N. andersoni (Musser, 1981 b; Musser and Chiu, 1979).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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