Sicista caudata

O. Thomas, 1907

Long-tailed Birch Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Dipodoidea
Family : Sminthidae
Genus : Sicista

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1907-08-01. 2. The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asin.-IV. List of small mammals from the islands of Saghalien and Hokakaido. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907(2):404-414.

Original name as described

Sicista caudata

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1907.2.5.104

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

17 miles NW Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · China · North Korea

Taxonomy notes

moved from Dipodidae to Sminthidae

Taxonomy notes citation

Lebedev, V.S., Bannikova, A.A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R. & Shenbrot, G.I. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphology‐based hypotheses. —Zoologica Scripta, 42, 231–249.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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