Leopoldamys neilli J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1347

Leopoldamys neilli J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976

Leopoldamys neilli J. T. Marshall, Jr. 1976 , Family Muridae : rats and mice [Privately printed by Government Printing Office, Bangkok]: 485.

Type Locality: Thailand, Saraburi Prov, Kaengkhoi Dist., "outside the entrance to the bat cave, half-way up the face of a wooded limestone cliff, 200 meters altitude." .

Vernacular Names: Neill's Leopoldamys.

Distribution: N and SW Thailand north of the peninsular region (J. T. Marshall, Jr.,1977 a; study of specimens in AMNH, BMNH, and USNM); limits unresolved (may also occur in adjacent Burma and Vietnam).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Documented by few specimens: three samples are from wooded limestone cliffs in Saraburi Province and adjacent Kanchanaburi Province in the southwest (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977 a; specimens in AMNH and USNM), one comes from lowland bamboo forest in a different part of Kanchanaburi Province ( Wiles, 1981), and a fourth consists of owl pellet fragments collected in Loei Province in the north ( BMNH 94.374). Phylogenetic relationship of L. neilli to other extant members of Leopoldamys requires resolution by systematic revision employing morphological and molecular data. See Musser (1981 b:237) for discussion of original publication.