Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe 1864)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1420

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scientific name

Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe 1864)
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Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe 1864) View in CoL

[Niviventer] coninga (Swinhoe 1864) View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 185.

Type Locality: Taiwan.

Vernacular Names: Spiny Taiwan Niviventer.

Synonyms: Niviventer coxinga (Swinhoe 1871) ; Niviventer coxingi (Thomas 1892) .

Distribution: Endemic to Taiwan, below about 2000 m and common at 1300 m (H.- T. Yu, 1993, 1994; M.-J. Yu, 1996).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as N. coxinga .

Discussion: Corbet and Hill (1992:364) explained why coninga instead of coxingi is the correct name for this species. Musser (1981 b) included a population from NE Burma, but that is a separate undescribed species; current morphometric analyses indicates N. coninga is not closely related to any species of Niviventer on the mainland (Musser and Lunde, ms), but analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b sequences ties N. coninga to N. tenaster within a clade also containing N. confucianus and N. culturatus (J. L. Patton, in litt., 2000). Chromosomal data documented by H.- T. Yu et al. (1996) and contrasted with karyotype of Taiwanese N. culturatus , which indicates that N. coninga and and Taiwanese N. culturatus are not sister-species but represent independent invasions of Taiwan from the Asian mainland, a pattern also supported by allozymic data (H.- T. Yu, 1995). Ecology, altitudinal distribution, and genetic population structure documented by H.- T. Yu (1993, 1994, 1995) and Adler (1995, 1996).

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Niviventer

Loc

Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe 1864)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Niviventer] coninga (Swinhoe 1864)

Swinhoe 1864: 185
1864
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