Neodon sikimensis Horsfield 1841

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1032

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Neodon sikimensis Horsfield 1841
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Neodon sikimensis Horsfield 1841

Neodon sikimensis Horsfield 1841 , A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company: 145-146 (as corrected by Kaneko and Smeenk, 1996; not Hodgson, 1849, as entrenched in the literature).

Type Locality: India, Sikkim.

Vernacular Names: Sikkim Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Neodon thricolis (Gray 1863) .

Distribution: Himalayas from W to E Nepal (based on FMNH series), through NE India (Sikkim and Darjeeling Dist.) to E Bhutan ( Ellerman, 1947 a, 1961); also SC and E Xizang (Tibet; Feng et al., 1986; Zhang et al., 1997).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Microtus sikimensis .

Discussion: Geographic distribution of N. sikimensis on the E Tibetan Plateau is parapatric with the smaller-bodied and morphologically different N. irene (see account), once included in N. sikimensis . Banded karyotype (2n = 48, FN = 56) described by Mekada et al. (2002), who postulated its derivation from that characterizing N. juldaschi (as Microtus carruthersi ). Indian population reviewed by Agrawal (2000); aspects of habitat, individual and age variation reported by Abe (1971) and Gruber (1969).

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Neodon

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Neodon sikimensis Horsfield 1841

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Neodon sikimensis

Horsfield 1841: 145-146 (as corrected by Kaneko and Smeenk, 1996; not Hodgson, 1849, as entrenched in the literature)
1841
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