Coxing's white-bellied rat

Coxing's white-bellied rat (Niviventer coninga), also known as the spiny Taiwan niviventer, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Robert Swinhoe first described the species in 1864, and it is endemic to Taiwan, so it occurs nowhere else. It lives in broad-leaf forests and their edges and in scrub. It is more common at elevations below 1,300 metres (4,300 feet) but can be found up to 2,000 metres (6,600 feet). Two later names for the same animal, Niviventer coxinga (Swinhoe, 1871) and Niviventer coxingi (Thomas, 1892), are treated as synonyms. The source article records the species as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and gives no account of its diet, breeding or population size.