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Sicista caudata Thomas 1907

Description

Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907 —Long-tailed Birch Mouse

Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907a p.413; Type locality- 17 miles Northwest of Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Russia; Won, 1968 p.167; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.24; Han, 2004c p.115.

S. concolor caudata: Yoon, 1992 p.88.

Range: Collected in the far northern area of Korea, BujeonCounty (main collection site), Jangjin Lake of Hamgyeongnam Province and Samjiyeon of Ryanggang Province (Fig. 111). No record exists in South Korea.

Remarks: Sicista caudata was considered a subspecies of S. concolor (Corbet, 1978). Karyological studies distinguished S. caudata from S. concolor (Holden & Musser 2005).

Conservation status: The North Korean Red Data Book classified S. caudata as ‘Rare’ (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dipodidae
Genus
Sicista
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Species
caudata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907 sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018

References

  • Thomas, O. (1907 a) The Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia. - IV. List of mammals from Island of Saghalien and Hokkaido. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 77, 404 - 414. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1907. tb 01825. x
  • Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
  • Han, S. H. (1994) The checklist of Mammals in North Korea. Nature Conservation, 86, 44 - 50. [in Korean]
  • Won, C. M. & Smith, K. G. (1999) History and current status of mammals of the Korean Peninsula. Mammal Review, 29, 3 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 2907.1999.00034. x
  • Han, S. H. (2004 c) Order Rodentia. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 102 - 141. [in Korean]
  • Yoon, M. H. (1992) The wildlife of Korea. Daewonsa Publishing Company, Seoul, 142 pp. [in Korean]
  • Corbet, G. B. (1978) The mammals of the Palaearctic region: a taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Holden, M. E. & Musser G. G. (2005) Superfamily Dipodoidae. In: Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (Eds.), Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3 rd Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 871 - 893.
  • MAB National Committee of DPR Korea (2002) Red Data Book of DPRK (Animal). Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pyongyang, 316 pp.