Contiene las siguientes especies:^[1]​

• Niviventer andersoni (Thomas, 1911)
• Niviventer brahma (Thomas, 1914)
• Niviventer cameroni Chasen, 1940
• Niviventer confucianus (Milne-Edwards, 1871)
• Niviventer coninga Swinhoe, 1864
• Niviventer cremoriventer (Miller, 1900)
• Niviventer culturatus (Thomas, 1917)
• Niviventer eha (Wroughton, 1916)
• Niviventer excelsior (Thomas, 1911)
• Niviventer fraternus Robinson & Kloss, 1916
• Niviventer fulvescens (Gray, 1847)
• Niviventer hinpoon (Marshall, 1976)
• Niviventer lepturus (Jentink, 1879)
• Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson, 1836)
• Niviventer rapit (Bonhote, 1903)
• Niviventer tenaster (Thomas, 1916)

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Alexander Balakirev, Alexei Abramov & Viatcheslav Rozhnov. 2014. Phylogenetic Relationships in the Niviventer-Chiromyscus complex (Rodentia, Muridae) inferred from Molecular Data, with Description of A New Species. ZooKeys. 451: 109–136. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.451.7210