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).