Tokudaia muenninki Johnson, 1946

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 670

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scientific name	Tokudaia muenninki Johnson, 1946
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Tokudaia muenninki Johnson, 1946 View in CoL . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 59:170.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Ryukyu Isls, N Okinawa Isl, Hentona (western coast) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known by modern specimens from Okinawa, and Late Pleistocene and Holocene samples from Okinawa and adjacent island of Le-jima ( Kawamura, 1989).

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of T. osimensis (Johnson, 1946) , chromosomal evidence, as well as external and cranial morphology, clearly distinguished muenninki as a separate species ( Tsuchiya, 1981).