Manipur white-toothed rat

The Manipur white-toothed rat (Berylmys manipulus) is a rodent in the family Muridae found in China, India and Myanmar. It lives in northeastern India, in northern and central Myanmar, and in Yunnan province of China west of the Salween River. Within India it has been recorded at Golaghat in Assam, in the Kekrima Hills and Naga Hills of Nagaland, and in the Bishenpur, Senapati and Imphal districts of Manipur. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the tribe Rattini, gives the alternative name Manipur Berylmys, notes that O. Thomas described it in 1916 from the Kabaw Valley in Upper Burma, and lists its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.