Vernaya foramena

Wang Youzhi, Hu Jinchu, & Chen Ke, 1980

Apparent Climbing Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Tribe : Vernayini
Genus : Vernaya

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Wang, Y.-z., Hu, J.-c. and Chen, K. 1980-12. A new species of Murinae – _Vernaya foramena_ sp. nov. Acta Zoologica Sinica 26(4):393-397.

Original name as described

Vernaya foramena

Type material

CWNU 75003

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Wanglang, Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China (2490 m a.s.l.).

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

split from V. fulva

Taxonomy notes citation

Zhao, S., Wang, X., Li, B. V., Dou, L., Liu, Y., Yang, S., ... & Chen, S. (2023). Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Vernaya (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) with the description of two new species. Ecology and Evolution, 13(11), e10628. · Liu, S., Zhao, S., Wang, J., Fu, C., Wang, X., Liu, S., & Chen, S. (2025). New insights into the mitogenomic phylogeny and evolutionary history of Murinae (Rodentia, Muridae) with the description of a new tribe. ZooKeys, 1233, 55.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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