Chestnut white-bellied rat

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Chestnut white-bellied rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Niviventer
Species: N. fulvescens
Binomial name
Niviventer fulvescens
(Gray, 1847)

The chestnut white-bellied rat (Niviventer fulvescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

References

  • Musser, G., Lunde, D., Aplin, K. & Molur, S.2008. Niviventer fulvescens. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 June 2009.
  • 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.
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