Mus cervicolor Hodgson, 1845. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 15:268. TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal. DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous range from Nepal east through Sikkim into NE India (Assam), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam (see map in J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a). Also recorded from Sumatra and Java where it has likely been inadvertently introduced (Musser and Newcomb, 1983). SYNONYMS: annamensis, cunicularis, imphalensis, nitidulus, popaeus, strophiatus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Mus.

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 623, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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