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GENUS Vernaya
Author: | Anthony, 1941. | Citation: | Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 27: 110. | Type Species: | Chiropodomys fulvus G. M. Allen, 1927. | Comments: | MicromysDivision. Dental morphology interpreted by Misonne (1969) to indicate close relationship with Chiropodomys; hypothesis requires testing with other characters. About the same time Anthony described Vernaya, Sody (1941) proposed Octopodomys. There is a single extant species, the remains of which have been found in late Pleistocene cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region of S China, and four extinct species have been described based on early to late Pleistocene fossils from the same region (Zheng, 1993). |
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