Macrotarsomys bastardi

A. Milne-Edwards & G. Grandidier, 1898

Bastard's Big-footed Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Milne-Edwards, A. and Grandidier, G. 1898. Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Muridé provenant de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 4:179-181.

Original name as described

Macrotarsomys Bastardi

Other common names

Lesser Big-footed Mouse · Western Big-footed Mouse · Western Forest Mouse

Type material

MNHN 1912.134 (= MNHN type 330)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"sud du Mangoky, entre Midongy et Thosy [= Ihosy]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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