Sicista napaea
Hollister, 1912
Altai 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
Hollister, N. 1912-11-29. New mammals from the highlands of Siberia. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 60(14):1-6.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910584Original name as described
Sicista napaea
Type material
USNM:MAMM:175195
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bd2160da-4ec1-4ff3-ad34-51594492072dType locality
"Tapucha [= Topuchaya], Altai Mountains, Siberia," Russia.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Kazakhstan · Russia
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
Least Concern
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