Authority citation: Temminck, C.J. 1844. Aflevering 2. Pp. 25–59 in Temminck, C.J. Fauna Japonica. Aperçu général et spécifique sur les mammifères qui habitent le Japon et les îles qui en dépendent. A. Arnz & Co., Leiden, 59 pp.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53607636
Original name as described: Mus speciosus
Nominal names: speciosus (Temminck, 1844) | ainu (O. Thomas, 1906) | navigator (O. Thomas, 1906) | dorsalis Kuroda, 1924 | insperatus Kuroda, 1938 | sadoensis M. Tokuda, 1939 [nomen nudum] | tusimaensis M. Tokuda, 1939 [nomen nudum] | sadoensis M. Tokuda, 1941 | tusimaensis M. Tokuda, 1941 | miyakensis Imaizumi, 1969
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Rodentia -- Family: Muridae -- Subfamily: Murinae -- Tribe: Apodemini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: RMNH.MAM.19686.a, RMNH.MAM.19686.b, RMNH.MAM.19687.a, RMNH.MAM.19687.b
Type locality: Japan.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Japan (JPN)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is listed in MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Least concern
Species-specific notes: a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys (including A. speciosus), and Sylvaemus; this revision was based on phylogenies created using cytochrome b sequences that show Apodemus sensu lato as monophyletic, but the three proposed genera as paraphyletic with each other; the authors supported the revision with the deep divergence time between the various clades; however, given that the genus is already monophyletic and that the proposed genera are not reciprocally monophyletic, Apodemus is retained as a single genus here pending more integrative taxonomic research
Citation: Mezhzherin, S., & Tereshchenko, V. (2023). Taxonomic Hierarchy and Evolutionary Scenario of the Genus Group Apodemus sl (Muridae) of the Palearctic based of Genetic Differentiation in the cyt-b Gene. Zoodiversity, 57(1), 1-12.
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