Vernaya Anthony 1941

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1518

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).