Tokudaia osimensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea
Template:Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

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

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]

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.

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.

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