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<emphasis id="534D0D588BED92A2BF5F370B10A2DF65" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
Kuroda 1943
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<emphasis id="780AD6B87895396F3B785E9DC5794E42" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
Kuroda 1943
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="2991485A697EB9A812B084BD4E238507" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1512">Type Species:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="BD51D8ED0ACF2973AF6259772E4A9196" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Rattus osimensis</emphasis>
Abe 1933
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<emphasis id="F8B7C86CBDBE50AAEA7EDFA867745366" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1512">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="BA33977AB7EAFB6203DDEA3C7F1692E3" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Acanthomys</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="3CE37270C9D920A04C5549A11029D7EA" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudamys</emphasis>
Johnson 1943
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.
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<emphasis id="FA52F2624F91ED7F9881DD8E5366403B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1512">Species and subspecies:</emphasis>
2 species:
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Species
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<emphasis id="EA848F2859E23342C92F98B94E14E4B4" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia muenninki</emphasis>
Johnson 1946
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Species
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<emphasis id="9F578A524153E6EF2C3C1A1E2761444A" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia osimensis</emphasis>
(Abe 1933)
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<emphasis id="571ADD3F8A92081BEE97BF6F3878EA75" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1512">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="33AAB17DB866CBA227010DE01745C84C" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
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Division.
<bibRefCitation id="7FE2C88905CBA5031F4626C17969FDE0" author="Kaneko, Y." refId="ref180015" refString="Kaneko, Y. 2001. Morphological discrimination of the Ryuky spiny rat (genus Tokudaia) between the islands of Okinawa and Amami Oshima, in the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Mammal Study, 26: 17 - 33." year="2001">Kaneko (2001)</bibRefCitation>
provided the first detailed morphological study comparing specimens (of all age groups) from S Okinawa Isl (
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<emphasis id="099F16EDB8049C232A97142B4296EAA6" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">muenninki</emphasis>
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) with those from N Amami-oshima Isl (
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<emphasis id="4A65F26E1E6C14AB7BD68A4573497A56" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">osimensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The significant morphological differences he documented parallel impressive chromosomal distinctions between the two insular populations (
<bibRefCitation id="771D869E3D7F39C59741F279827A33A6" author="Honda, T. &amp; H. Suzuki &amp; M. Itoh &amp; K. Hayashi" refId="ref157468" refString="Honda, T., H. Suzuki, M. Itoh, and K. Hayashi. 1978. Karyotypical differences of the Amami spinous country-rat, Tokudaia osimensis osimensis obtained from two neighbouring islands. Japanese Journal of Genetics, 53: 297 - 299." year="1978">Honda et al., 1978</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="DB79A4A882248679648D1974D36855BD" author="Tsuchiya, K." refId="ref360189" refString="Tsuchiya, K. 1981. [On the chromosome variations in Japanese cricetid and murid rodents]. Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science), 42: 51 - 58 (in Japanese, with English abstract)." year="1981">Tsuchiya, 1981</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="767A98CF900B1825A871D80E9FE3D53B" author="Tsuchiya, K. &amp; S. Wakana &amp; H. Suzuki &amp; S. Hattori &amp; Y. Hayashi" refId="ref360312" refString="Tsuchiya, K., S. Wakana, H. Suzuki, S. Hattori, and Y. Hayashi. 1989. Taxonomic study of Tokudaia (Rodentia: Muridae): I. Genetic differentiation. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 22: 227 - 234." year="1989">Tsuchiya et al., 1989</bibRefCitation>
), which support the specific status of each as listed by
<bibRefCitation id="51A969EB620A68A89C5B47C8E130E4DB" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton (1993)</bibRefCitation>
. Kaneko also detailed the taxonomic history of the names now associated with
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<emphasis id="F5BC9C8F0FB2F219A4ACB07E04DD01AE" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
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.
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Based on molar morphology,
<bibRefCitation id="DE91C544D62E60FC42EC9E8AEA26B44E" author="Kawamura, Y." refId="ref181787" refString="Kawamura, Y. 1989. Quaternary rodent faunas in the Japanese Islands (Part 2). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy, 54 (1 - 2): 1 - 235." year="1989">Kawamura (1989)</bibRefCitation>
placed
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<emphasis id="5119B5AA7C348961634CE7D532D3C777" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
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in a group containing
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<emphasis id="5CBA1A0922CDA2C3298DF80E4C587AF4" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
, Pliocene
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="0CD8FDEFF5772A0FB35574DE12D18C29" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Rhagapodemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and Quaternary
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<emphasis id="66E4602074E1CB809BCD4CA8538B0CB0" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Rhagamys</emphasis>
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; and suggested that
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<emphasis id="E9C09393351C7873288BBB526A0E337A" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
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evolved from Miocene
<emphasis id="EC33A7F795E5161AD17C185E8E53F68C" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">
<taxonomicName id="FE292A6DF36A2DDCA130107D3FED62E6" authorityName="Schaub" authorityYear="1938" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Parapodemus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Parapodemus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="1A907C0B041379A4645932B1772113C4" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Apodemus</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
ancestral stock; its evolutionary link to primitive species of
<taxonomicName id="32CE111385B70BBB33B6F728E8D30AD3" authority=", Kawamura" authorityName="Kawamura" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="CB4E16BA6DE1FE11071A0EEB25ACC532" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
, Kawamura
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suggested, may be found in Miocene or Pliocene sediments of
<collectingCountry id="D891B9F10F59513013DBCCA3D60D123F" name="China">China</collectingCountry>
. Analyses of mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="AA94E71D5BEC226003F3EE9499BC91E1" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">b</emphasis>
and nuclear
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gene sequences from samples of
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<emphasis id="300B9EDBF3EF9BA662AADB8B9EE66400" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="166FA07086C2C55565E86369C2049B4B" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B855E9516D8D076D227F625C178C060D" authorityName="Dehne" authorityYear="1841" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A8260B11D713D14C5BEB63908B66E7A3" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Micromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="35C8CBCAA772E93E4BA83D0E835BB95C" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Mus</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="634B5269AFCF89A625AF096AEABD976F" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Rattus</emphasis>
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by
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suggested that they &quot;diverged at similar evolutionary times, namely at the time of the radiation of
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&quot;. This suggestion is not so different from that supposed by
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since it is in the Miocene that the initial radiation of
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occurred, and species of primitive
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<emphasis id="B71C4826332FBF3D074CE2CC08545A26" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
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are among the basal members (see generic account of
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<emphasis id="2EC9B91F2057552CBA82595881FEC219" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
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). The close phylogenetic association between
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<emphasis id="BD005D3562A3CF7F81F5DEC256EF449A" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="AED3A9F95F3494ED1B509CA348C18C71" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="7CF60FCBCA6F427F6BC74862B67F2FE4" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Apodemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been reinforced by analyses of sequences from mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="178E116EBE9DB500DB0C87561D4D7AB5" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">b</emphasis>
and 12S rRNA genes (
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Michaux et al., 2002
<emphasis id="4ED2618ABB33C0D7B3595D7FD8BCAC16" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">a</emphasis>
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E48859887B2791E6968525574F034987" pageNumber="1512">
The species of
<taxonomicName id="1491DC99147516EF77A62E6C327B1611" authorityName="Kuroda" authorityYear="1943" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tokudaia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="18FCB6168DB7398CF0B3B9F8306022CB" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Tokudaia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
join the murine
<taxonomicName id="FEA48F78FB1742FFAA5D5AB487C1A863" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Diplothrix" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="legata">
<emphasis id="CF4E666F01FF896723272BD6041AA40B" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Diplothrix legata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and leporid
<taxonomicName id="CC903641ACBB59F85CBF1ECF057D80C9" baseAuthorityName="Stone" baseAuthorityYear="1900" class="Mammalia" family="Leporidae" genus="Pentalagus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lagomorpha" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="furnessi">
<emphasis id="FCDCCCD5C5974DA2FA9635F75A711015" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">Pentalagus furnessi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as endemics to the Ryukyu Isls (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="AD3399E09D8B720766D9A9AD626A2FBE" author="Kaneko, Y." refId="ref179857" refString="Kaneko, Y. 1994. [Muridae.] Pp. 90 - 110 and 168 - 183, in A pictorial guide to the mammals of Japan (H. Abe, N. Ishii, Y. Kaneko, K. Maeda, S. Miura, and M. Yoneda, eds.). Tokai University Publication, Tokyo, 195 pp. (In Japanese)." year="1994">Kaneko, 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="0696E2F20B1151C515D5F8C21601D34A" author="Suzuki, H. &amp; M. A. Iwasa &amp; N. Ishii &amp; H. Nagaoka &amp; K. Tsuchiya" refId="ref344865" refString="Suzuki, H., M. A. Iwasa, N. Ishii, H. Nagaoka, and K. Tsuchiya. 1999 a. The genetic status of two insular populations of the endemic spiny rat Tokudaia osimensis (Rodentia, Muridae) of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Mammal Study, 24: 43 - 50." year="1999">
Suzuki et al., 1999
<emphasis id="698C96AC4D76CC4EC1D856B54AA525D6" italics="true" pageNumber="1512">a</emphasis>
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). For the rodents,
<bibRefCitation id="C3AC9B92154B36A082FF6F7EC170BF17" author="Suzuki, H. &amp; K. Tsuchiya &amp; N. Takezaki" refId="ref345006" refString="Suzuki, H., K. Tsuchiya, and N. Takezaki. 2000. A molecular phylogenetic framework for the Ryukyu endemic rodents Tokudaia osimensis and Diplothrix legata. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 15 (1): 15 - 24." year="2000">Suzuki et al. (2000:23)</bibRefCitation>
noted that &quot;the genetic constitution of the rodents in the Okinawa area is distinct from that of the rodents in the surrounding areas, including the Japanese mainland and
<collectingCountry id="257F6D54CFC39726BBC6E502E0E46BE5" name="Taiwan">Taiwan</collectingCountry>
. These findings imply that, in the region of the Central Ryukyus, mammals with a unique and ancient origin have inhabited a small geographic region.&quot;
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
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