Neodon
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Neodon is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[1] Species within Neodon are classified as relics of the Pleistocene epoch because the occlusal patterns resemble the extinct Allophaiomys.
While the IUCN only recognizes 6 species of Neodon, the American Society of Mammalogists lists the following species, with Neodon leucurus being moved into this genus from Phaiomys and the additional 9 species being recently described:[2]
- Bershula mountain vole (Neodon bershulaensis)
- Bomi mountain vole (Neodon bomiensis)
- Chayu mountain vole (Neodon chayuensis)
- Clarke's vole (Neodon clarkei)
- Forrest's mountain vole (Neodon forresti)
- Plateau vole (Neodon fuscus)
- Chinese scrub vole (Neodon irene)
- Blyth's vole (Neodon leucurus)
- Liao Rui's mountain vole (Neodon liaoruii)
- Linzhi mountain vole (Neodon linzhiensis)
- Medog mountain vole (Neodon medogensis)
- Namchabarwa mountain vole (Neodon namchabarwaensis)
- Nepalese mountain vole (Neodon nepalensis)
- Nyalam mountain vole (Neodon nyalamensis)
- Shergyla mountain vole (Neodon shergylaensis)
- Sikkim mountain vole (Neodon sikimensis)
References
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- A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company: 145-146 (as corrected by Kaneko and Smeenk, 1996; not Hodgson, 1849, as entrenched in the literature).