Leopoldamys edwardsi (Thomas, 1882)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 603

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scientific name	Leopoldamys edwardsi (Thomas, 1882)
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Leopoldamys edwardsi (Thomas, 1882) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882:587.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, mountains of W Fujian (probably Kuatun) .

DISTRIBUTION: India (W Bengal, Sikkim, N Assam), N Burma, S and C China (to S Anhui; Liu et al., 1985), N Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula, and W Sumatra.

SYNONYMS: ciliatus , garonum, gigas , hainanensis , listeri , melli , milleti , setiger .

COMMENTS: Requires taxonomic revision. Samples from Indochina may represent a different species than the one sampled from Malay Peninsula and Sumatra (Musser, 19816). In additon to synonyms assembled by Musser (19816), Xu and Yu (1985) recently described hainanensis . Phallic morphology described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Leopoldamys