Apodemus nigrus
Ge Deyan, Feijó, & Yang Qisen in Ge Deyan, Feijó, Cheng Jilong, Lu Liang, Liu Rongrong, Abramov, Xia Lin, Wen Zhixin, Zhang Weiyong, Shi Lei, & Yang Qisen, 2019
Black 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
Ge, D.-y., Feijó, J.A., Cheng, J.-l., Lu, L., Liu, R.-r., Abramov, A.V., Xia, L., Wen, Z.-x., Zhang, W.-y., Shi, L. and Yang, Q.-s. 2019-09-30. 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.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz032Original name as described
Apodemus nigrus
Type material
BIZ GZ14081
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
Fanjing Mountain National Nature Reserve (27.70° N, 108.83° E), 2078 m, Guizhou, China.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
China
Taxonomy notes
recently described; a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys (including A. nigrus), 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
Not Evaluated
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