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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusBerylmys
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Berdmore's Berylmys

Berylmys berdmorei (Blyth, 1851)

Also calledBerdmore-Weil (deu) · Kleine Weißzahnratte (deu) · Rat de Berdmore (fra) · białozębnik mały (pol) · thaimaanhammasrotta (fin) · Малая индокитайская крыса (rus) · หนูฟันขาวเล็ก (tha) · コシロハネズミ (jpn)

First described in: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal vol.20 p.173

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution: Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (from Central to Southern area).

Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist

discussion

Discussion: Berylmys berdmorei is the only species of Berylmys recorded from a small island (Con Dao, S Vietnam) off continental Indochina. Evolutionary history extends back to the middle Pleistocene, based on molars recovered from cave sediments in C Thailand (Chaimanee, 1998).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

distribution

Distribution: S China (S Yunnan; Wang, 2003; Yang and Wu, 1979; Zhang et al., 1997), S Burma, Thailand (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977 a; Robinson et al., 1995), Cambodia, N and C Laos (Aplin et al., 2003 c; Smith et al., In Press), and S Vietnam (Dang et al., 1994; Kuznetsov, 2000); also on Con Dao Isl (= Con Son Isl). Details of overall range are documented by Musser and Newcomb (1983) and Corbet and Hill (1992).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

discussion

COMMENTS: B. berdmorei is the only species of Berylmys recorded from a small island (Con Son, S Vietnam) off continental Indochina.

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

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