Pithecheirops otion Emmons 1993

Pithecheirops otion Emmons 1993, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 106: 753.

Type Locality: Malaysia, Sabah (N Borneo), Danum Valley Field Centre, 150 m (see Emmons, 1993 b, for more information) .

Vernacular Names: Bornean Pithecheirops.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Discussion: Described from a single juvenile collected in "dense viny roadside secondary brush on an abandoned logging road" in what was primary lowland dipterocarp forest, which still persists "within 600 m and is the dominant vegetation type of the entire surrounding region" (Emmons, 1993 b:753). Member of a group of murines endemic to Borneo (see account of Chiropodomys major).