Niviventer

Niviventer Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Dark-tailed tree rat (Niviventer cremoriventer)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Tribe:	Rattini
Genus:	Niviventer J. T. Marshall, 1976
Type species
Mus niviventer
Species
18, see text

Niviventer is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Southeast Asia. It contains the following species:^[1]

• Anderson's white-bellied rat, Niviventer andersoni
• Brahma white-bellied rat, Niviventer brahma
• Niviventer bukit ^[2]
• Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat, Niviventer cameroni
• Chinese white-bellied rat, Niviventer confucianus
• Coxing's white-bellied rat, Niviventer coninga
• Dark-tailed tree rat, Niviventer cremoriventer
• Oldfield white-bellied rat, Niviventer culturatus
• Smoke-bellied rat, Niviventer eha
• Large white-bellied rat, Niviventer excelsior
• Tibetan white-bellied rat, Niviventer fengi^[3]
• Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat, Niviventer fraternus
• Chestnut white-bellied rat, Niviventer fulvescens
• Limestone rat, Niviventer hinpoon
• Niviventer huang ^[2]
• Lang Bian white-bellied rat, Niviventer langbianis
• Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat, Niviventer lepturus
• Hainan white-bellied rat, Niviventer lotipes (Allen, 1926) (formerly in N. tenaster)
• Mekong white-bellied rat, Niviventer mekongis^[3]
• White-bellied rat, Niviventer niviventer
• Long-tailed mountain rat, Niviventer rapit
• Tenasserim white-bellied rat, Niviventer tenaster

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