Indian bush rat
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| Indian Bush Rat | |
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| Indian bush rat at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, India | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Golunda Gray, 1837 |
| Species: | G. ellioti |
| Binomial name | |
| Golunda ellioti Gray, 1837 | |
The Indian Bush Rat (Golunda ellioti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only extant member of the genus Golunda.[2]
The species is widely distributed in the Indian Subcontinent west to Kohat and east to the Bhutan Duars. It also occurs in Sri Lanka. As many as 11 subspecies are recognized.[3][4]
The genus name is derived from the Kannada name of Gulandi while the specific name is after Sir Walter Elliot.[5] The nominate form is from southern India. Other forms include limitaris (northwestern limits), paupera (Punjab), watsoni (Sind), gujerati (Gujarat), bombax (Bombay), coraginis (Coorg), coffaeus (Sri Lanka), newera (Sri Lanka), myiothrix (Nepal) and coenosa (Bhutan Duars, Hasimara).[4]
References
- ↑ Baillie, J. 1996. Golunda ellioti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.
- ↑ Thomas, Oldfield (1923). "Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLII. The distribution and geographical races of the Gulandi Bush Rats (Golunda ellioti)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 373–376.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ellerman, JR (1941). The families and genera of living rodents. Volume 2. Family Muridae. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 267–268.
- ↑ Blanford, WT (1891). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia.. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 427–428.
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