Mus terricolor Blyth, 1851

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 : 629

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Mus terricolor Blyth, 1851 View in CoL . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 20:172.

TYPE LOCALITY: S India, Bengal, neighborhood of Calcutta .

DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous to peninsular India, Nepal, and Pakistan; occurs also in Medan region of N Sumatra ( Indonesia) where it was probably inadvertently introduced ( Musser and Newcomb, 1983, discussed under dunni ).

SYNONYMS: beavanii, dunni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mus . Formerly referred to as M. dunni (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977b, 1986), but terricolor is the older name. Chromosomal results presented by Sharma et al. (1986, under dunni ) in context of evolutionary divergence from other species of Mus .