Apodemus draco
(Barrett-Hamilton, 1900)
South China Field Mouse
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Muridae |
| Subfamily | : Murinae |
| Tribe | : Apodemini |
| Genus | : Apodemus |
Species status
Authority citation
Barrett-Hamilton, G.E.H. 1900-08. On geographical and individual variation in _Mus sylvaticus_ and its allies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900(2):387-428.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35994686Original name as described
Mus sylvaticus draco
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1898.11.1.20
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8748c855-aaf1-4442-bbb2-15caece9e189Type locality
Kuatun, NW Fujian, China.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic · Indomalaya
Country distribution
China
Taxonomy notes
previously included A. semotus and A. ilex; a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys (including A. draco), and Sylvaemus; this revision was based on phylogenies created using cytochrome b sequences that show Apodemus sensu lato as monophyletic, but the three proposed genera as paraphyletic with each other; the authors supported the revision with the deep divergence time between the various clades; however, given that the genus is already monophyletic and that the proposed genera are not reciprocally monophyletic, Apodemus is retained as a single genus here pending more integrative taxonomic research
Taxonomy notes citation
Ge, D., Feijó, A., Cheng, J., Lu, L., Liu, R., Abramov, A. V., ... & Yang, Q. (2019). Evolutionary history of field mice (Murinae: Apodemus), with emphasis on morphological variation among species in China and description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 187(2), 518-534. · Mezhzherin, S., & Tereshchenko, V. (2023). Taxonomic Hierarchy and Evolutionary Scenario of the Genus Group Apodemus sl (Muridae) of the Palearctic based of Genetic Differentiation in the cyt-b Gene. Zoodiversity, 57(1), 1-12.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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