Eothenomys melanogaster (Milne-Edwards, 1871)

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 : 514

Eothenomys melanogaster (Milne-Edwards, 1871) . Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull., 7:93.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, W Sichuan, Moupin .

DISTRIBUTION: W and S China, north to S Gansu and Ningxia, south to N Thailand and N Burma; also on Taiwan.

SYNONYMS: aurora , bonzo , cachinus , colurnus, confinii, eleusis , fidelis , kanoi , libonotus, miletus , mucronatus .

COMMENTS: Allen (1940) treated miletus and eleusis as distinct species, and Corbet (1978c) acknowledged that more than one species may be represented in what he identified as E. melanogaster . After checking large museum series, we share this reservation and only provisionally ally these synonyms with melanogaster pending a systematic revision of the group. Conventional karyotype of Taiwan populations reported by Harada et al. (1991).