Nesomys lambertoni

G. Grandidier, 1929

Lamberton's Forest Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Grandidier, G. 1929. Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Nesomys, le _N. lambertoni_, G. Grand. Bulletin de l'Académie malgache (n.s.)11:95-99.

Original name as described

Nesomys lambertoni

Other common names

Western Nesomys · Western Red Forest Rat

Type material

MCZ:Mamm:45941, MNHN 1961.106

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

type locality not given. Identified by M. D. Carleton and colleagues in 2014 as "Mahajanga Province (former), Melaky Région, Antsalova District, tsingy habitat at the western margin of the Bemaraha Massif and east of Antsalova."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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