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Neodon sikimensis  Hodgson, 1849
Taxonomic Serial No.: 970624

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Microtus sikimensis (Hodgson, 1849)
  
    Arvicola thricolis Gray, 1863
  
  Common Name(s): Sikkim Mountain Vole [English]
  
    Sikkim Vole [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderRodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents  
                                  SuborderMyomorpha Brandt, 1855 – Rats, souris, Mice, Rats, Voles, Gerbils, Hamsters, Lemmings  
                                     SuperfamilyMuroidea Illiger, 1811  
                                        FamilyCricetidae Fischer, 1817  
                                           SubfamilyArvicolinae Gray, 1821 – arvicoline rodents  
                                              GenusNeodon Hodgson, 1849  
                                                 SpeciesNeodon sikimensis Hodgson, 1849 – Sikkim Mountain Vole, Sikkim Vole  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott  
  Publication Date: 1966   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, 2nd edition   
  Page(s): 810   
  Publisher: Alden Press   
  Publication Place: Oxford, England   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0565004484   
  Notes: Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8727652   
  Reference for: Neodon sikimensis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Horsfield, Thomas  
  Publication Date: 1849   
  Article/Chapter Title: Brief Notice of several Mammalia and Birds discovered by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., in Upper India   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 2 vol. 15   
  Page(s): 202-203   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0374-5481   
  Notes: Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16085493   
  Reference for: original description   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Liu, Shao Ying, Zhi Yu Sun, Yang Liu, Hao Wang, Peng Guo, and Robert W. Murphy  
  Publication Date: 2012   
  Article/Chapter Title: A new vole from Xizang, China and the molecular phylogeny of the genus Neodon (Cricetidae: Arvicolinae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, issue 3235   
  Page(s): 1-22   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/2/zt03235p022.pdf   
  Reference for: Neodon sikimensis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Superfamily Muroidea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2   
  Page(s): 894-1531   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
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  Reference for: Neodon sikimensis, Sikkim Mountain Vole [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Sikkim Vole[English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Southern Asia  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc) as Microtus sikimensis  
    Comments: Geographic distribution of N. sikimensis on the E Tibetan Plateau is parapatric with the smaller-bodied and morphologically different N. irene (see account), once included in N. sikimensis. Banded karyotype (2n = 48, FN = 56) described by Mekada et al. (2002), who postulated its derivation from that characterizing N. juldaschi (as Microtus carruthersi). Indian population reviewed by Agrawal (2000); aspects of habitat, individual and age variation reported by Abe (1971) and Gruber (1969)  
    In Wilson and Reeder (2005) the author for genus Neodon and species Neodon sikimensis is erroneously cited as Horsfield, 1841 and should be correctly Hodgson, 1849 (Horsfield, 1849: 203; while Horsfield authored the article he attributed the name to Hodgson)  
 

 

    

 
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