{"offset":0,"limit":20,"endOfRecords":true,"results":[{"key":463154891,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"conservation","language":"eng","description":"Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":231539457},{"key":463154892,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"discussion","language":"eng","description":"Discussion: Subgenus Pyromys. Close relationship with M. saxicola, also in subgenus Coelomys, substantiated by analyses of DNA / DNA hybridization and mitochondrial 12 S rRNA sequences, but not morphological traits (Chevret et al., 2003). May be more than one species within present definition of M. platythrix. Samples from the northwest have 2 n = 30, those from S India have 2 n = 26, but \" the limits of these forms and any correlation with morphological characters have not been defined \" (Corbet and Hill, 1992: 330). Another Indian endemic revised by J. T. Marshall, Jr. (1977 b) and reviewed by Agrawal (2000). Occurrence and ecology in the Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan State documented by Prakash et al. (1995 a, b, c), and in the Western Ghats of S India by Chandrasekar-Rao and Sunquist (1996). Roberts (1977, 1997) reported M. platythrix from S Pakistan, but that record probably represents M. saxicola, which occurs in India and S Pakistan (Corbet and Hill, 1992: 328).","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":231539457},{"key":463154893,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"Distribution: Peninsular India north to West Bengal (Agrawal, 2000; Corbet and Hill, 1992).","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":231539457},{"key":463154894,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"Type Locality: Peninsular India, Dukhun (= Deccan).","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":231539457},{"key":463426511,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"discussion","language":"eng","description":"COMMENTS: Subgenus Pyromys.","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":205132027},{"key":463426512,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular India.","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":205132027},{"key":463426513,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular India, Dukhun.","source":"Order Rodentia - Family Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":205132027},{"key":463433034,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"DISTRIBUTION: India.","source":"Order Rodentia (Part 5)","sourceTaxonKey":205127004},{"key":463433035,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"TYPE LOCALITY: India, Dukhun.","source":"Order Rodentia (Part 5)","sourceTaxonKey":205127004},{"key":463508060,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"activity","language":"eng","description":"Activity patterns. Flat-haired Mice are terrestrial and nocturnal.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508061,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"biology_ecology","language":"eng","description":"Habitat. Uncultivated hilly country in sandy, rocky, and gravelly habitats. Also found in cultivated fields.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508062,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"biology_ecology","language":"eng","description":"Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508063,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"breeding","language":"eng","description":"Breeding. Females recorded as breeding from May to February. Litter size is 2 - 9, and a female is able to have up to 18 young per year.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508064,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"conservation","language":"eng","description":"Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508065,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"description","language":"eng","description":"Descriptive notes. Head-body 77 - 123 mm, tail 51 - 81 mm, hindfoot 17 - 22 mm; weight 18 g. This medium-sized mouse has spiny fur that is dark brown dorsally and white to grayish white on the belly. The bicolored tail is shorter than the head-body length (under 80 %). Hindfeet with dark stripe. Females bear five mammae. Karyotype is 2 n = 26 - 30.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508066,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"discussion","language":"eng","description":"Placed in subgenus Pyromys, where it is sister to M. saxicola. In the latest molecular phylogeny M. platythrix is found basal to the subgenus Mus. May be a complex of species, in view of the cytogenetic variation from 2 n = 26 to 2 n = 30 observed between north and south India. Taxonomy requires further investigation.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508067,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"Distribution. Endemic to India up to 2000 m.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508068,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"food_feeding","language":"eng","description":"Food and Feeding. The Flat-haired Mouse is omnivorous.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613},{"key":463508069,"taxonKey":2438801,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"Deccan, India.","source":"Muridae","sourceTaxonKey":197826613}]}