Niviventer confucianus

Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871). Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7(Bull.):93. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin. DISTRIBUTION: N.E. China to N. Thailand, N. Burma and Vietnam; Hainan; Taiwan. COMMENT: Includes canorus, champa, chihliensis, culturatus, elegans, littoreus, lotipes, luticolor, mentosus, sacer, sinianus, yaoshanensis, and zappeyi; see Musser and Chiu, 1979, J. Mammal., 60:581-592, and Musser, 1981, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 168(3):237, 251, 255, who reviewed this species and stated that the relationship of confucianus to niviventer needs clarification. Formerly included in Maxomys; see Musser et al., 1979, J. Mammal., 60:592-605.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 536, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303