Nesokia indica (Gray, 1830)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 52-54

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121294

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Nesokia indica (Gray, 1830)
status

 

36. Short-tailed Nesokia, Nesokia indica (Gray, 1830) View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: N. i. bacheri Nehring, 1897 and N. i. myosura (Wagner, 1845).

Distribution: Common with a wide distribution along the Euphrates Valley and in Mesopotamia. ( Fig. 42 View FIGURE 42 )

Previous records: Sheikh Hassan ( Misonne 1957), Qal’at er-Rahba and Tell Abu Hurera, west bank of Lake Assad, 5 km north of Tabqah ( Kock & Nader 1983), es- Salihiyyeh, Qal’at er-Rahba, Tell Al Buderi, Qater Maghara, Halabiyyeh, and el- Ukersheh (Shehab et al. 2004) and Jabal Abd Al-Aziz ( Daoud & Khalil 2009c).

Remarks: The subspecies N. i. bacheri Nehring, 1897 was reported from Tell Abu Hurera ( Kock & Nader 1983), and N.i. myosura (Wagner, 1845) from Sheikh Hassan ( Misonne 1957). The ranges of these subspecies are geographically separated by the Euphrates River.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Nesokia

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