Smoke-bellied rat

The smoke-bellied rat, Niviventer eha, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, the large family that holds the Old World rats and mice. It was first described by Wroughton in 1916 and is placed in the genus Niviventer. The species is recorded from four countries of southern and eastern Asia, namely China, India, Myanmar and Nepal. The International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it Least Concern, as relayed through the GBIF backbone taxonomy, which also confirms the accepted name and the family. The English Wikipedia article for this animal is a short stub that gives only the family and the range, so its appearance, diet, habitat and behaviour are not described here and remain to be filled from specialist mammal sources.