Savile's bandicoot rat

Savile's bandicoot rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Bandicota
Species:	B. savilei
Binomial name
Bandicota savilei Thomas, 1916

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. 2016. IUCN: e.T2542A115062801. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T2542A22447660.en. 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". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1081 (1): 17–29. doi:10.1196/annals.1373.002. ISSN 0077-8923.
3. Morand, Serge; Bordes, Frédéric; Blasdell, Kim; Pilosof, Shai; Cornu, Jean‐François; Chaisiri, Kittipong; Chaval, Yannick; Cosson, Jean‐François; Claude, Julien; Feyfant, Tristan; Herbreteau, Vincent; Dupuy, Stéphane; Tran, Annelise (June 2015). McCallum, Hamish (ed.). "Assessing the distribution of disease‐bearing rodents in human‐modified tropical landscapes". Journal of Applied Ecology. 52 (3): 784–794. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12414. ISSN 0021-8901.

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1294. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.