First record of Wroughton’s Small Spiny Mouse Mus phillipsi Wroughton, 1912 (Rodentia: Muridae) from Odisha, India with notes on diversity and distribution of other rodents

• DOI: 10.11609/jott.4989.13.2.17611-17618
• Publication Date: 2021-02-26T13:37:49Z
• Authors: Pratyush P. Mohap...; S.S. Talmale; V. Sarkar; S.K. Dutta
• Keywords: Muridae

We report the occurrence of Wroughton’s Small Spiny Mouse Mus phillipsi Wroughton, 1912 based on a specimen collected from Gajapati District, Odisha. With this species, diversity order Rodentia in Odisha increases to 17 species under three families and 12 genera. An updated checklist rodents with distribution localities threats various is also presented.