| niviventer confucianus sacer (rodentia, muridae) is a distinct species based on molecular, karyotyping, and morphological evidence. | niviventer confucianus sacer thomas, 1908, which has been regarded as a subspecies of n. confucianus, was found to be a distinct species from n. confucianus based on molecular, karyotyping, and morphological characteristics in this study. niviventer c. sacer was found to belong to a distinct phylogenetic clade in phylogenetic tree constructed using the mitochondrial gene cytb, it clustered with n. bukit (bonhote, 1903) from vietnam and n. confucianus (milne-edwards, 1871) from yunnan, but showed ... | 2020 | 32879614 |