Mus mayori (Thomas, 1915)

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 : 625

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scientific name	Mus mayori (Thomas, 1915)
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Mus mayori (Thomas, 1915) View in CoL . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 23:415.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, Central Mountains, Pattipola, 6200 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to forested regions of Sri Lanka.

SYNONYMS: pococki .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Coelomys . Phillips (1980) recognized highland ( mayori ) and lowland ( pococki ) as subspecies, and summarized distributional and biological information for both; also see J. T. Marshall, Jr. (1977b) for discussion of chromatic variation within each form.