Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat

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Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Nesokia Species: N. indica
Binomial name
Nesokia indica (Gray, 1830)

The Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat (Nesokia indica) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Its natural habitat is temperate shrubland.

[edit] References

• Boitani, L. 2004. Nesokia indica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.