Neodon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Arvicolinae
Genus: Neodon
Species (16): N. bershulaensis – N. bomiensis – N. chayuensis – N. clarkei – N. forresti – N. fuscus – N. irene – N. leucurus – N. liaoruii – N. linzhiensis – N. medogensis – N. namchabarwaensis – N. nepalensis – N. nyalamensis – N. shergylaensis – N. sikimensis

Name

Neodon Horsfield, 1851: 145

• Type species: Neodon sikimensis Horsfield, 1851, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Neodon Hodgson in Horsfield, 1849: 203 [nomen nudum by Kaneko & Smeenk (1996: 161)]
  • Type species: Neodon sikimensis Hodgson in Horsfield, 1849, by monotypy.
• Bicunedens Gray, 1863: 11 [nomen nudum]
  • Type species: Bicunedens perfuscus Gray, 1863, by monotypy.
• Phaiomys Blyth, 1863: 89 [synonymized by implication by Liu et al. (2012: 10)]
  • Type species: Phaiomys leucurus Blyth, 1863, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Horsfield, T. 1849. Brief notice of several Mammalia and birds discovered by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., in Upper India. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Serie 2 3(15): 202–203. BHL Reference page. 
• Horsfield, T. 1851. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. J. & H. Cox: London. vi + 212 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Blyth, E. 1863. Report of the curator, zoological department. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 32: 73–90. BHL
• Kaneko, Y. & Smeenk, C. 1996. The author and date of publication of the Sikkim vole Microtus sikimensis. Mammal Study 21(2): 161–164. DOI: 10.3106/mammalstudy.21.161 ; BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Liu, S.-Y., Sun, Z.-Y., Liu, Y., Wang, H., Guo, P. & Murphy, R.W. 2012. A new vole from Xizang, China and the molecular phylogeny of the genus Neodon (Cricetidae: Arvicolinae). Zootaxa 3235(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3235.1.1 Reference page. 
• Liu, S.-Y., Jin, W., Liu, Y., Murphy, R.W., Lu, B., Hao, H.-B., Liao, R., Sun, Z.-Y., Tang, M.-K., Chen, W.-C. & Fu, J.-R. 2017. Taxonomic position of Chinese voles of the tribe Arvicolini and the description of two new species from Xizang, China. Journal of Mammalogy 98(1): 166–182. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw170 Reference page. 
• Pradhan, N., Sharma, A.N., Sherchan, A.M., Chhetri, S., Shrestha, P. & Kilpatrick, C.W. 2019. Further assessment of the Genus Neodon and the description of a new species from Nepal. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219157. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219157 Reference page. 
• Liu, S.-Y., Zhou, C.-G., Meng, G.-L., Wan, T., Tang, M.-K., Yang, C.-T., Murphy, R.W., Fan, Z.-X., Liu, Y., Zeng, T., Zhao, Y. & Liu, S.-L. 2022. Evolution and diversification of Mountain voles (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Communications Biology 5(1): 1417. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04371-z Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Mountain Voles