Eothenomys smithi (Thomas, 1905)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 487

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scientific name	Eothenomys smithi (Thomas, 1905)
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Eothenomys smithi (Thomas, 1905) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 15:493.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Honshu, Kobe .

DISTRIBUTION: Dogo, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu ( Japan).

COMMENT: Includes kageus; see Ota and Jameson, 1961, Ecology, 42:184- 186, and Tanaka, 1971, Jpn. J. Zool., 16: 163-176. MLJ by pers. comm, with Y. Imaizumi considers kageus a separate species. Placed by Tanaka, 1971, Jpn. J. Zool., 16:163- 176, in the monotypic genus Phaulomys Thomas 1905 ; but see Corbet, 1978:102, and Aimi, 1980, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ. Ser. Biol., 8:35-84. Placed by Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:134, in genus Alticola , subgenus Aschizomys .

References

Aimi, M. 1980. A revised classification of the Japanese red-backed voles. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Biology, 8: 35 - 84.

Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).

Tanaka, R. 1971. A research into variation in molar and external features among a population of the Smith's red-backed vole for elucidation of its systematic rank. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 16: 163 - 176.