Cannomys badius (Hodgson 1841)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 907-926 : 913

Cannomys badius (Hodgson 1841)

[Rhizomys] badius Hodgson 1841 , Calcutta J. Nat. Hist., 2: 60.

Type Locality: Nepal.

Vernacular Names: Lesser Bamboo Rat.

Synonyms: Cannomys castaneus (Blyth 1843) ; Cannomys lönnbergi Gyldenstolpe 1917 ; Cannomys minor ( Gray 1842) ; Cannomys pater Thomas 1915 ; Cannomys plumbescens Thomas 1915 .

Distribution: E Nepal, through NE India (West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, and Mizoram; Agrawal, 2000), Bhutan, SE Bangladesh, Burma ( Ellerman, 1961), S China (SW Yunnan; Zhang et al., 1997), NW Vietnam ( Dang et al., 1994), Thailand (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977 a; Robinson et al., 1995), and Cambodia; see Kock and Posamentier (1983) and Lekagul and McNeely (1977).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992). Regional faunal treatises provide informative accounts for populations in Thailand (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977 a), Burma ( Ellerman, 1961), and China (G. M. Allen, 1940). Agrawal (2000) reviewed Indian populations and could find no significant differences in fur coloration and other traits among the three subspecies ( castaneus , pater , and plumbescens ) recognized by Ellerman (1961) and treated them as full synonyms of C. badius .