Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 163

Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907 —Long-tailed Birch Mouse

Sicista caudata Thomas, 1907a p.413 ; Type locality- 17 miles Northwest of Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Russia; Won, 1968 p.167; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.24; Han, 2004c p.115.

S. concolor caudata: Yoon, 1992 p.88 .

Range: Collected in the far northern area of Korea, BujeonCounty (main collection site), Jangjin Lake of Hamgyeongnam Province and Samjiyeon of Ryanggang Province ( Fig. 111 ). No record exists in South Korea.

Remarks: Sicista caudata was considered a subspecies of S. concolor ( Corbet, 1978) . Karyological studies distinguished S. caudata from S. concolor ( Holden & Musser 2005) .

Conservation status: The North Korean Red Data Book classified S. caudata as ‘Rare’ (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002).

Figures

FIGURE 111. Range map of Sicista caudata in Korea.