Biology:Savile's bandicoot rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Savile's bandicoot rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Bandicota
Species:
B. savilei
Binomial name
Bandicota savilei
Thomas, 1916
Range Bandicota savilei.png

Savile's bandicoot rat (Bandicota savilei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. This species inhabits dry agricultural lands, where they feed on crops such as corn.[2]

Parasites[3]

  • Leptospira spp.
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi
  • Bartonella spp.
  • Hantaviruses

References

  1. Aplin, K. (2016). "Bandicota savilei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2016: e.T2542A115062801. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T2542A22447660.en. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2542/0. Retrieved 13 December 2017. 
  2. Herbreteau, Vincent; Demoraes, Florent; Hugot, Jean‐Pierre; Kittayapong, Pattamaporn; Salem, GéRard; Souris, Marc; Gonzalez, Jean‐Paul (October 2006). "Perspectives on Applied Spatial Analysis to Animal Health: A Case of Rodents in Thailand" (in en). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1081 (1): 17–29. doi:10.1196/annals.1373.002. ISSN 0077-8923. https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1373.002. 
  3. Morand, Serge; Bordes, Frédéric; Blasdell, Kim; Pilosof, Shai; Cornu, Jean‐François; Chaisiri, Kittipong; Chaval, Yannick; Cosson, Jean‐François et al. (June 2015). McCallum, Hamish. ed. "Assessing the distribution of disease‐bearing rodents in human‐modified tropical landscapes" (in en). Journal of Applied Ecology 52 (3): 784–794. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12414. ISSN 0021-8901. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12414. 

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