Neodon
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. The genus Neodon contains the following species:
- Forrest's mountain vole (Neodon forresti)
- Chinese scrub vole (Neodon irene)
- Linzhi mountain vole (Neodon linzhiensis)
- Sikkim mountain vole (Neodon sikimensis)
| Neodon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Arvicolini |
| Genus: | Neodon Horsfield, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Neodon sikimensis | |
| Species | |
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Neodon irene | |
References
- Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- 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).
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