South China Field Mouse

distribution

Distribution: China, India and Northern Myanmar (Proposed Imawbum NP; Nijman 2015) and possibly in Southeastern Chin State.

Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist

discussion

Discussion: Apodemus Group. Included in subgenus Alsomys by Zimmerman (1962) and Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) but placed in the " Apodemus Group " by Musser et al. (1996), which contains the Eastern Asian species Zimmerman placed in Alsomys as well as A. agrarius and A. chevrieri, which are in subgenus Apodemus. Originally described as a subspecies of A. sylvaticus, and listed that way by some workers (G. M. Allen, 1940; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951), but correctly listed as a separate species by others (Corbet, 1978 c; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Ellerman, 1941; Xia, 1985), who also thought there was a close relationship between A. draco and A. argenteus, which is unsupported by cranial and dental morphology (Musser et al., 1996). Corbet and Hill (1992) recognized orestes as a separate species sympatric or possibly parapatric with A. draco, and their treatment is followed in recent regional faunal reports (Agrawal, 2000, for India, and Wang, 2003, for China) and Jiang and Wang (2000), who analyzed morphometric variation. Musser et al. (1996) found no evidence for this arrangement in their study of large samples from W China, and orestes is also included in A. draco by Liu et al. (2002

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

distribution

Distribution: China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan in the east through Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ninxia, Gansu and Guangxi to Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, and SE Xizang in the west), N and EC Burma (Kachin and Chin states, respectively), and NE India (Arunachal Pradesh; USNM 564492, 564493); see Musser et al., (1996), Agrawal (2000), Corbet and Hill (1992), Feng et al. (1986) and Zhang et al. (1997).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

discussion

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys. Originally described as a subspecies of sylvaticus, and listed that way by Allen (1940: 945) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951: 571), but correctly listed as a separate species by Ellerman (1941: 101), Corbet (1978 c: 137), Corbet and Hill (1991), and Xia (1985), who also noted the close relationship between A. draco and A. argenteus.

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae