Guess the country with animals

WalkingAgnatha said:
This country is one of two nations with endemic gaviallidae, has it's own endemic varanus subgenus (which split off around 20 mya) as well as being the home of a semi-recently described giant rodent.
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I feel like it’s either India, Malaysia or Myanmar. I’m not sure though because the gharial sentence is confusing me.
 
Swampy said:
I feel like it's the Solomon Islands, though 20mya seems too recent a divergence.

Nobody specified it should be extant animals...
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Correct! And I just went off a lowball estimate for the divergence which was between the late Ogliocene and early Miocene.
 
Thank you @WalkingAgnatha.
This country is the only one on its continent with an endemic amphibian genus, and also contains the easternmost enclave of a range-restricted ungulate.
 
This country is believed to surprisingly hold (what's believed to be) the most basal species of a common and arid adapted family of passerines, it's also the home of a believed to be EXW mammal, hystricomorphs, 'skunks' and flying squirrels all coexist in one place in this country.
 
This country is very biodiverse, and has 13 native afrotherian species. Unfortunately, a lot of the wildlife here was very negatively affected by political issues in the 20th century, including the national animal, which was almost pushed to extinction.
 
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