Niviventer culturatus (Thomas, 1917)

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 : 633

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scientific name	Niviventer culturatus (Thomas, 1917)
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Niviventer culturatus (Thomas, 1917) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 20:198.

TYPE LOCALITY: Taiwan, Mt Arizan, 8000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to mountains of Taiwan.

COMMENTS: Either listed as a species ( Ellerman, 1941), a subspecies of N. niviventer ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Wang and Zheng, 1981), or included in N. confucianus ( Musser, 1981b) . It is a distinctive insular form that in morphology resembles mainland N. confucianus , but differs sufficiently that it should be treated as a species until relationships can be assessed by systematic revision of the genus.