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Millardia meltada (Gray, 1837). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 1:586. TYPE LOCALITY: India, S Mahratta, Dharwar. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; Indian Peninsula west to Gujarat and Rajasthan, north to Himachal Pradesh, and east to West Bengal; E Pakistan; and Terai region of Nepal (see Rana, 1985). SYNONYMS: comberi, dunni, lanuginosus, listoni, pallidior, singuri. COMMENTS: Cytogenetics of this species is the subject of a growing body of literature (Nanda and Raman, 1981; Raman and Sharma, 1977; Sobti and Gill, 1984; Yosida, 1978). Mandai and Ghosh (1981) described singuri as a subspecies of M. meltada.

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 621, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098