Mus (Mus) famulus Bonhote 1898

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1393

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Mus (Mus) famulus Bonhote 1898
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Mus (Mus) famulus Bonhote 1898 View in CoL

Mus (Mus) famulus Bonhote 1898 View in CoL , J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 12: 99.

Type Locality: S India, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Hills, Coonoor, 5000 ft (1524 m).

Vernacular Names: Servant Mouse.

Distribution: An Indian endemic recorded only from the Western Ghats (= Sahyadris) in tropical evergreen rain forest covering the Nilgiri Hills in SW peninsular India, about 1500 m ( Agrawal, 2000; Corbet and Hill, 1992).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Mus . Revised by J. T. Marshall, Jr. (1977 b); reviewed by Agrawal (2000) and Corbet and Hill (1992). Originally considered a member of subgenus Coelomys along with M. vulcani , M. crociduroides , M. mayori , and M. pahari (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977 b [Marshall acknowledges his mistake and now supports the subgeneric allocation identified here; in litt., 2004). However, recent analyses of morphological traits, DNA/DNA hybridization, and mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences indicates close relationship with European ( M. spicilegus , M. spretus , and M. musculus ) and Asian ( M. cervicolor , M. cookii , and M. caroli ) clades within subgenus Mus ( Chevret et al., 2003; Guénet and Bonhomme, 2003); molecular data place M. famulus as sister to first M. fragilicauda and then the European clade (see review by Guénet and Bonhomme, 2003), but morphology nests it within the Asian clade. The murine Vandeleuria nilagirica is also recorded only from the Nilgiri Hills; Rattus satarae and the lion-tailed macaque ( Macaca silenus ) occur there also but have a more extensive range northward in the Western Ghats to which they are endemic.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Mus

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Mus (Mus) famulus Bonhote 1898

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Mus (Mus) famulus

Bonhote 1898: 99
1898
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