Neodon irene Thomas 1911

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 : 1031

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Neodon irene Thomas 1911
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Neodon irene Thomas 1911 View in CoL

Neodon irene Thomas 1911 View in CoL , Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911 (90): 5.

Type Locality: China, Sichuan, Tatsienlu.

Vernacular Names: Irene's Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Neodon oniscus Thomas 1911 .

Distribution: High mountains in the Chinese provinces of E Qinghai, S Gansu, W Sichuan, NE Xizang, and NW Yunnan (G. M. Allen, 1940; Feng et al., 1986; Zhang et al., 1997).

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

Discussion: Member of the sikimensis species group ( Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Ellerman (1941, 1947 b, 1961) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) listed irene as a valid species, but Weigel (1969) allocated it to Pitymys sikimensis as did Corbet (1978 c), citing Gruber’s (1969) "detailed study" as substantiation. However, the union of irene and sikimensis is insufficiently demonstrated by Gruber’s study, whose data actually underscore the trenchant differences in size and dentition between the two. Ellerman (1947 b, 1961) highlighted these marked differences in body size and m1 patterns in his keys and descriptions, contrasts reinforced by Feng et al. (1986), who recorded irene from NE Tibet and sikimensis just to the west, without evidence of character overlap. Lawrence (1982) recorded localities and habitat information for a large AMNH series of N. irene collected in Qionglai Shan (2900-3660 m), Sichuan.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Neodon

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Neodon irene Thomas 1911

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Neodon irene

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