Lesser Bamboo Rat

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Lesser Bamboo Rat
Fossil range: Recent

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Subfamily: Rhizomyinae
Genus: Cannomys
Thomas, 1915
Species: C. badius
Binomial name
Cannomys badius
(Hodgson, 1841)

The Lesser Bamboo Rat (Cannomys badius) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Cannomys. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.

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[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Cannomys badius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.