Leopoldamys sabanus (Thomas, 1887)

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 : 603

Leopoldamys sabanus (Thomas, 1887) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 20:269.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Sabah (N Borneo), Gunung Kinabalu .

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and smaller islands on the Sunda Shelf.

SYNONYMS: balae , bunguranensis, clarae, dictatorius, fremens , heptneri, herberti, insularum, lancavensis, lucas , luta , macrourus , mansalaris, masae , matthaeus , mayapahit, nasutus , revertens, salanga, stentor , strepitans , stridens , stridulus , tapanulius, tersus, tuancus, ululons, vociférons.

COMMENTS: Appreciable morphological variation exists between samples from north and south of Isthmus of Kra, and among insular samples from the Sunda Shelf; systematic revision is required to assess whether variation is characteristic of one or more than one species (Musser, 19816). The name macrourus has priority over sabanus , but is based on a specimen of uncertain origin (Musser, 19816).