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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34124880Original 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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