Ryukyu spiny rat
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| Ryukyu spiny rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Tokudaia |
| Species: | T. osimensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tokudaia osimensis (Y. Abe, 1934) | |
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The Ryukyu spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only on Amami (Ryukyu islands) in Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. They have lost their Y chromosome.[1]
References
- ↑ KAYOKO GEJI (August 23, 2012). "Y chromosome losing all genes, but men won't become extinct". The Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- Ishii, N. 2000. Tokudaia osimensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. "Superfamily Muroidea", in D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds) Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference pp. 894–1531, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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