Namchabarwa mountain vole
| Namchabarwa mountain vole | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Genus: | Neodon |
| Species: | N. namchabarwaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Neodon namchabarwaensis Liu, Zhou, Murphy, & Liu, 2022[1]
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The Namchabarwa mountain vole (Neodon namchabarwaensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found only in China, and is known from the area south of the Yarlung Zangbo River and north of the Namchabarwa Mountains, after which it is named.[2][1] The type specimen was found at 3,160 metres (10,370 ft). It was identified from genetic and morphological data in 2022 by Liu et al, along with five other new species of Neodon.[1] The specimens identified as N. namchabarwaensis, collected in 2008, were previously identified as N. skikimensis.[3][1]
It is a medium-sized mole, with an average adult body length of 114.9 millimetres (4.52 in). The tail is about 40% of the whole body length.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Liu, S.; Zhou, C.; Meng, G.; Wan, T.; Tang, M.; Yang, C.; Murphy, R.W.; Fan, Z.; Liu, Y.; Zhao, Y.; Liu, S. (2022). "Evolution and diversification of Mountain voles (Rodentia: Cricetidae)". Communications Biology. 5 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04371-z. PMC 9792541.
- ^ a b "Neodon namchabarwaensis". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. 1.11. American Society of Mammalogists.
- ^ Liu, Shaoying; Zhou, Chengran; Wan, Tao; Meng, Guanliang; Murphy, W. Robert W.; Fan, Zhengxin; Tang, Mingkun; Liu, Yang; Zeng, Tao (2019-12-13), Out of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and get flourishing - the evolution of Neodon voles (Rodentia: Cricetidae) revealed by systematic sampling and low coverage whole genome sequencing, bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2019.12.12.873679, retrieved 2025-03-30
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