Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 504-560 : 536

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scientific name	Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871)
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Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871) View in CoL . Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7(Bull.):93.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin .

DISTRIBUTION: N.E. China to N. Thailand, N. Burma and Vietnam; Hainan; Taiwan.

COMMENT: Includes canorus, champa, chihliensis, culturatus, elegans , littoreus, lotipes, luticolor, mentosus, sacer, sinianus, yaoshanensis, and zappeyi; see Musser and Chiu, 1979, J. Mammal., 60:581-592, and Musser, 1981, Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 168(3):237, 251, 255, who reviewed this species and stated that the relationship of confucianus to niviventer needs clarification. Formerly included in Maxomys ; see Musser et al., 1979, J. Mammal., 60:592-605.