Apodemus argenteus (Temminck, 1844)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 570

Apodemus argenteus (Temminck, 1844) . In Siebold, Temminck, and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Arnz et Socii, Lugduni Batavorum, p. 51.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan .

DISTRIBUTION: Japan; the four main islands along with some of the smaller ones ( Corbet, 1978c:136).

SYNONYMS: celatus , geisha , hokkaidi, sagax , tanei, yakui.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys , but subgeneric allocation was questioned by Corbet (1978c:136). Because the type-series of Mus argenteus Temminck, 1844 is composite, a lectotype was chosen by Smeenk et al. (1982), which stabilizes the name of this species. Year of publication of argenteus is usually listed as 1845 but description appeared in 1844 ( Smeenk et al., 1982). Electrophoretic analyses of 17 enzymes reported by Saitoh et al. (1989) in context of biochemical systematics of Japanese Apodemus . Chromosomal and morphometric comparisons between A. argenteus and other Japanese Apodemus reviewed by Vorontsov et al. (1977a).