Korean Field Mouse

distribution

Distribution: China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Northern Myanmar (recorded in Adaung valley; Kaneko 2010). Genus Bandicota Gray, 1873

Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist

discussion

Discussion: Apodemus group. Usually considered a member of subgenus Alsomys (Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) but placed in subgenus Apodemus by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Mezhzherin and Zykov (1991), and included in an Apodemus Group by Musser et al. (1996) based upon morphology, which has been consistently corroborated by analyses of allozymes and sequences from mtDNA cytochrome b and nuclear DNA (Chelomina, 1998; Chelomina et al., 1998 b; Filippucci et al., 2002; Liu et al, 2004; Mezhzherin, 1997 a; Michaux et al., 2002 a; Seriwaza et al., 2000; Suzuki et al., 2003). The Chinese qinghaiensis was described as a subspecies (Feng et al., 1983). Corbet (1978 c) listed nigritalus as a synonym of A. sylvaticus, but the holotype is A. peninsulae (Musser and Carleton, 1993; Musser et al., 1996; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987). Apodemus peninsulae is sympatric with the smaller-bodied A. uralensis in the Altai region, which Hollister (1913 b) had noted (but under different names; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: 567). In a revision of N Eurasian species of Apodemus, Mezhzherin (1997 a) used the older name major instead of peninsulae, but major is twice preoccupied (see Ellerman and Mor

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

distribution

Distribution: A northern segment in S Siberia from Altai Mtns in the west to Ussuri region in the east (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Reiter et al., 1995, who documented occurrence on Svjatoj Nos peninsula and isthmus in Lake Baikal), and the Russian island of Sakhalin (Abe et al., 1996) and Japanese island of Hokkaido (Dobson, 1994; Kaneko, 1994); an eastern arm ranging south through E Mongolia and NE China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, and E Nei Mongol), and the Korean Peninsula (Won and Smith, 1999); then extending westward through N China (Shanxi, Shaanxi, SE Gansu to SE Qinghai), and south through SW Sichuan to NW Yunnan and E Xizang (Tibet). We are unaware of any records south of NW Yunnan and west of about 92 ° E longitude. Musser and Carleton (1993) incorrectly included the Chinese province of Xinjiang within the range, but only A. agrarius and A. uralensis (recorded as A. sylvaticus tsherga) are known from that region (Ma et al., 1987). The distribution outlined here is based upon our study of museum specimens (Musser et al., 1996) and the references cited above, and is similar to the distribution described by Wang (2003) and Zhang et al. (1997).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

discussion

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys. The Chinese qinghaiensis was described as a subspecies (Feng et al., 1983). Results of B-chromosomal analyses and references to chromosomal studies of A. peninsulae provided by Kolomiets et al. (1988) and Borisov and Malygin (1991). Biochemical systematics in reference to A. speciosus and the Hokkaido giliacus reported by Saitoh et al. (1989), who also reviewed the contrasting treatment of giliacus as either a subspecies of A. peninsulae or a separate species, and its bigeographical implications. Corbet (1978 c) listed nigritalus as a synonym of A. sylvaticus, but the holotype is A. peninsulae (also see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987: 221). A. peninsulae nigritalus is sympatric with the smaller-bodied A. uralensis tscherga in the Altai region, which Hollister had noted (but under different names) in 1913 b (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: 567). Placed in subgenus Apodemus by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Mezhzherin and Zykov (1991).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae