Tokudaia
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| Tokudaia Temporal range: Late Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Myomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Tribe: | Apodemurini |
| Genus: | Tokudaia Kuroda, 1943 |
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Tokudaia is a genus of murine rodent native to Japan. Known as Ryūkyū spiny rats or spinous country-rats, population groups exist on several non-contiguous islands.[1] Despite differences in name and appearance, they are the closest living relatives of the Eurasian field mouse (Apodemus).
Named species are:
- Muennink's Spiny Rat, Tokudaia muenninki
- Ryukyu Spiny Rat, Tokudaia osimensis
- Tokunoshima Spiny Rat, Tokudaia tokunoshimensis
At least Tokudaia osimensis may be a cryptic species complex.
References
External links
Data related to Tokudaia at Wikispecies
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