Savile's bandicoot rat

Savile's bandicoot rat (Bandicota savilei) is a rodent in the family Muridae, one of the bandicoot rats of the genus Bandicota in the tribe Rattini. It is found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and the Mammal Diversity Database also lists Cambodia and a possible record from Laos, placing it in the Indomalaya realm. It lives on dry agricultural land, where it feeds on crops such as corn, and it is known to carry parasites and pathogens including Leptospira, Orientia tsutsugamushi, Bartonella and hantaviruses. It was described by Oldfield Thomas in 1916 from Mount Popa in the dry zone of Burma, at about 760 metres, and its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.