Berylmys bowersii

(J. Anderson, 1879)

Bowers's White-toothed Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Tribe : Rattini
Genus : Berylmys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Anderson, J. 1879. Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a Monograph of the Two Cetacean Genera, Platanista and Orcaella. First Volume–Text. Bernard Quaritch, London, 984 pp.

Original name as described

Mus bowersii

Other common names

Bowers's Berylmys · Bowers's Rat

Type material

ZSI 10078

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Hotha, 1370 m, Kakhyen Hills, Yunnan Province, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

India · Myanmar · China · Thailand · Laos · Vietnam · Malaysia · Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

previously included B. latouchei; includes the recently described genus and species Pseudoberylmys muongbangensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Hai, T. H., Viet, T. H., & Dang, N. X. (2009). New genus and species of stripe-bellied rat Pseudoberylmys muongbangensis Tran. HH, TH Viet, LX Canh, NX Dang, 2008 gen. sp. nov.(Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae) from Vietnam. Academia Journal of Biology, 31(2), 33-39. · Balakirev AE, Bui Xuan Phuong, Pham Mai Phuong, Rozhnov VV. (2011) On taxonomic status of Pseudoberylmys muongbangensis new species and genus described from Son La Province, Vietnam. Does it new or pseudo-new species? Proceedings of 4-th national scientific conference on ecology and biological resources. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2011, 11–19. · Xu, Y., Hu, J., Shi, Z., Chen, W., Zhou, J., Zhang, B., ... & Chen, Z. (2023). Integrative systematics and evolutionary history of Berylmys bowersi (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae). Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), e10234.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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