The short-tailed Bandicoot Rat, Nesokia indica (Gray, 1830) is a widespread species in the Iranian plateau, except Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces. The subspeci fi c status of this species in Iran is controversial. Five subspecies ( N. i. indica , N. i. huttoni , N. i. buxtoni , N. i. insularis and N. i. legendrei ) are defi ned based on external morphological characters. Morphological differences among seven populations of N. indica from Mashhad, Tabas, Ferdows, Torbatjam, Bojnord, Bampor, and Gorgan were evaluated using multivariate, landmark-based geometric morphometrics for the right mandible and the elliptic Fourier method for the first lower molar. The results showed a highly signi ficant shape variation between short-tailed Bandicoot Rats from the south and northeast of Iran. Based on these analyses, two subspecies were identifi ed: N. i. indica from the southeast and N. i. huttoni from the northeast of Iran

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