Sicista caudata Thomas 1907

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 888

Sicista caudata Thomas 1907

Sicista caudata Thomas 1907 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907: 413.

Type Locality: Russia, Sakhalin Oblast, Sakhalin Isl, 17 miles NW Korsakov.

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Birch Mouse.

Distribution: Ussuri region of NE China (Heilongjiang, Jilin; Wang, 2003) and Primorski Kray, Sikhote-Alin range, N Korea, and Sakhalin Isl, Russia; see map in Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Sokolov et al. (1982, 1987 b) and Sokolov and Kovalskaya (1990) gave karyological and spermatozooal characters that distinguished this species from S. tianshanica , and from S. concolor (Sokolov et al., 1980) . See also comment under Sicista and S. concolor . Korean range is discussed by Won and Smith (1999). Populations in Russia reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995) and Shenbrot et al. (1995).