Chinese bamboo rat [SEP] parent taxon
Chinese bamboo rat
The Chinese bamboo rat ("Rhizomys sinensis") is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in southern China, southern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam. Its habitat is bamboo thickets usually at high elevations, pine forests, and plantations.
Description.
The head and body length is with a tail of and the weight is . The fur is soft with no guard hairs as are seen in the closely related hoary bamboo rat ("Rhizomys pruinosus"). On the side of the
Chinese zokor extends across north China from Qinghai to Beijing while that of the Rothschild's and Smith's zokors are confined to Gansu, Shaanxi, Hubei and Qinghai. The false zokor and Transbaikal zokor are found along China's border region with Russia and Mongolia.
All four bamboo rat species in the world are found in China: the Chinese bamboo rat south of the Yangtze, hoary bamboo rat in southwest China, large bamboo rat in Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan and lesser bamboo rat and western Yunnan. The large bamboo rat can