Tokudaia osimensis

Tokudaia osimensis

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 Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Tribus: Apodemini
Genus: Tokudaia
Species: Tokudaia osimensis

Name

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

• 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

Primary references

• 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

• 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

• IUCN: Tokudaia osimensis (Abe, 1933) (Endangered)

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Amami-Inselstachelratte
English: Amami Spiny Rat
español: Ratta espinosa de Amami
français: Mulot d'Amami
日本語: アマミトゲネズミ