Tokudaia osimensis
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Muroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Tribus: Apodemini
Genus: Tokudaia
Species: Tokudaia osimensis
Name
[edit]Tokudaia osimensis (Abe, 1933)
Type locality: Mt. Kiyako-kan, Sumiyō Village, Amami Ōshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Holotype: "four specimens without registration, and presumably destroyed in Hiroshima in 1945" [Kaneko, 2001: 31]
Synonyms
[edit]- Acanthomys osimensis Tokuda, 1941: 95
- Rattus fulvescens osimensis Ellerman, 1941: 193
- Rattus jerdoni osimensis Abe, 1933: 942 (protonym)
- Tokudaia osimensis Kuroda, 1943: 61
- Tokudamys osimensis osimensis Johnson, 1946: 169
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Abe, Y. 1933. アマミトゲネズミに就いて [On the Amami Ōshima spiny rat.] Botany and Zoology 1: 936–942. Reference page.
- Ellerman, J.R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Volume 2. Family Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. xii + 690 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Tokuda, M. A revised monograph of the Japanese and Manchou-Korean Muridae. Biogeographica: transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 4(1): 1–155. Reference page.
- Kuroda, N. 1943. アマミトゲネズミ沖縄島に発見せらる [The occurrence of the spinous rat in Okinawa Island in the central Riu Kiu Islands.] Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 13: 59–64. Reference page.
- Johnson, D.H. 1946. The spiny rats of the Riu Kiu Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 59: 169–172. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Kaneko, Y. 2001. Morphological discrimination of the Ryukyu spiny rat (genus Tokudaia) between the islands of Okinawa and Amami Oshima, in the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Mammal Study 26(1): 17–33. DOI: 10.3106/mammalstudy.26.17 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- IUCN: Tokudaia osimensis (Abe, 1933) (Endangered)
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Amami Spiny Rat
español: Ratta espinosa de Amami
français: Mulot d'Amami
日本語: アマミトゲネズミ