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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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Offspring:

SPECIES fulva

Synonyms:

    Octopodomys Sody, 1941

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