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Sand-colored Metad
Millardia gleadowi (Murray, 1886)
Also calledRat de Gleadow (fra) · Sandfarbene Weichfellratte (deu) · hietapehmohiiri (fin) · krysa Gleadowa (ces) · szczurofutrzak piaskowy (pol) · Жёлтая крыса (rus) · スナイロミラードヤワゲネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1885 p.809
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: A distinctive species morphologically unlike any other Millardia and adapted to semideserts of shifting sand dunes, clay flats, and rocky hillsides. Raman and Sharma (1977) reported essentially no similarity between karyotypes of M. meltada and M. gleadowi. Its inclusion in Millardia should be reexamined. Indian population reviewed by Agrawal (2000); ecology and distribution in Gujarat State of NW India recorded by Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: S and C Pakistan on west side of Indus River (Roberts, 1977, 1997) and adjacent NW India (Agrawal, 2000).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Raman and Sharna (1977) reported essentially no similarity between karyotypes of M. meltada and M. gleadowi.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
activity
Activity patterns. Sand-colored Soft-furred Rats are nocturnal, terrestrial, and fossorial. Burrows are widely scattered and always excavated below some bush or succulent plants of the family Chenopodiaceae. Burrows are small, not very deep (45 - 61 cm below surface) and terminate in a nest chamber lined with grass; a vertical tunnellinks the nest chamber to the surface.
Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Millardia gleadowi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5219778.