Sicista caudata Thomas 1907

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 888

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Type Locality: Russia, Sakhalin Oblast, Sakhalin Isl, 17 miles NW Korsakov.

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Birch Mouse.

Distribution: Ussuri region of NE China (Heilongjiang, Jilin; Wang, 2003) and Primorski Kray, Sikhote-Alin range, N Korea, and Sakhalin Isl, Russia; see map in Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Sokolov et al. (1982, 1987 b) and Sokolov and Kovalskaya (1990) gave karyological and spermatozooal characters that distinguished this species from S. tianshanica , and from S. concolor (Sokolov et al., 1980) . See also comment under Sicista and S. concolor . Korean range is discussed by Won and Smith (1999). Populations in Russia reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995) and Shenbrot et al. (1995).

References

Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp.

Shenbrot, G. I., V. E. Sokolov, V. G. Heptner, and Yu. M. Koval'skaya. 1995. [Mammals of the fauna of Russia and contiguous countries. Dipodoid rodents.] Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 576 pp. (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., Y. M. Kovalskaya, and M. I. Baskevich. 1982. [Taxonomy and comparative cytogenetics of some species of the genus Sicista (Rodentia, Dipodidae)]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 61 (1): 102 - 108 (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., and Y. M. Kovalskaya. 1990. Kariotipy myshovok severnovo Tyan' - Shanya i Sikhote-Alinya (Sicista, Dipodoidea, Rodentia) [Karyotypes of birch mice (Sicista, Dipodoidea, Rodentia) in the northern Tien-Shan and Sikhote-Alin]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 69 (5): 152 - 157 (in Russian).

Wang, Y. 2003. A complete checklist of mammal species and subspecies in China. A taxonomic and geographic reference. China Forestry Publishing House, (Beijing), 394 pp.

Won, C., and K. G. Smith. 1999. History and current status of mammals of the Korean Peninsula. Mammal Review, 29 (1): 3 - 33.