Fig. 9 in Description of a New Genus and Species of Rodent (Murinae, Muridae, Rodentia) from the Tower Karst Region of Northeastern Vietnam

Fig. 9. Plantar views of left hind feet of adults of Indomalayan murines in the Dacnomys division. A, Chiromyscus chiropus (AMNH 268333, southern Vietnam). B, Niviventer langbianis (AMNH 272251, northern Vietnam). C, N. fulvescens (AMNH 272376, northern Vietnam). D, Saxatilomys paulinae (BMNH 2000.292, Lao PDR). The feet of the arboreal C. chiropus and N. langbianis are short and adorned with large and bulbous plantar pads compared with the longer foot and relatively smaller pads in the terrestrial/ scansorial N. fulvescens. The four interdigital pads (at the bases of the digits), thenar (t), and hypothenar (h) of S. paulinae are set appreciably closer than in any of the other species, are more swollen, and larger, not only absolutely but relative to plantar surface, an overall plantar adornment resembling that exhibited by Tonkinomys daovantieni (fig. 8).