Apodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900)

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 : 571

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scientific name	Apodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900)
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Apodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1900:418.

TYPE LOCALITY: S China, NW Fujian, Kuatun .

DISTRIBUTION: China (Hebei, SW Fujian, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ninxia, Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xixang), Burma, and India (Assam).

SYNONYMS: argenteus (Swinhoe, not Temminck), bodius, ilex , orestes .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys . Originally described as a subspecies of sylvaticus , and listed that way by Allen (1940:945) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:571), but correctly listed as a separate species by Ellerman (1941:101), Corbet (1978c:137), Corbet and Hill (1991), and Xia (1985), who also noted the close relationship between A. draco and A. argenteus .

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.

Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Xia Wu-ping. 1985. A study on Chinese Apodemus and its relation to Japanese species. Pp. 76 - 79, in Contemporary mammalogy in China and Japan (T. Kawamichi, ed.). Mammalogical Society of Japan, 194 pp.