Eliurus myoxinus

Milne-Edwards, 1885

Milne-Edwards's Tufted-tail Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Nesomyidae
Subfamily : Nesomyinae
Genus : Eliurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (Paris), vol. 20, Art. 1 bis

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36377359

Original name as described

Eliurus myoxinus

Other common names

Western Tuft-tailed Rat

Type material

MNHN 1886.1120

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"côte ouest de Madagascar." Modified by P. Rode in 1945 to "Forêts de Tsilambany," which M. D. Carleton and D. F. Schmidt in 1990 considered a collection locality by A. Grandidier at "Riv. Tsilambana," approximately 65 km SSE Morondava.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003750

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Eliurus myoxinus

Milne-Edwards, 1885

Family

Nesomyidae

Root name

myoxinus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN 1886.1120

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

Art. 1 bis

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36377359

Authority publication

Annales des sciences naturelles

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:158) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:410) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  4. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:187) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #7623) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #7623) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003750) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7623/22238673) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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