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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Caryomys
SPECIES Caryomys inez
| Author: | Thomas, 1908. | | Citation: | Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1908(63): 45. | | Common Name: | Inez’s Red-backed Vole | | Type Locality: | China, Shanxi (Shansi), mtns 12 mi (19 km) NW Kolanchow, 7000 ft (2134 m). | | Distribution: | N Sichuan and SE Shaanxi through Shanxi provinces, China, possibly farther east. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Eothenomys inez. | | Comments: | Following Hinton (1926a), inez was synonymized with Clethrionomys rufocanus (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977), but its distinctive status is well documented, typically within Eothenomys (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Kaneko, 1992c). Hinton (1926a) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) allocated nux to Clethrionomys rufocanus shanseius, but G. M. Allen (1940) treated it as a subspecies of Eothenomys inez. Kaneko’s (1991) morphometric analysis identified the holotype of nux as an example of inez, as concluded earlier by A. B. Howell (1929). Kaneko restricted the range to Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, but Zhang et al. (1997) mapped a far broader distribution. |
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