Vernaya Anthony 1941

Vernaya Anthony 1941, Field Mus . Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 27: 110.

Type Species: Chiropodomys fulvus G. M. Allen 1927

Synonyms: Octopodomys Sody 1941 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Vernaya fulva (G. M. Allen 1927)

Discussion: Micromys Division. Dental morphology interpreted by Misonne (1969) to indicate close relationship with Chiropodomys; hypothesis requires testing with other characters. About the same time Anthony described Vernaya, Sody (1941) proposed Octopodomys . There is a single extant species, the remains of which have been found in late Pleistocene cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region of S China, and four extinct species have been described based on early to late Pleistocene fossils from the same region (Zheng, 1993).