Morphological discrimination of the Ryukyu spiny rat (genus Tokudaia) between the islands of Okinawa and Amami Oshima, In the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan
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Thirty-eight museum specimens of the Ryukyu spiny rat, belonging to the genus Tokudaia Kuroda, 1943 (Rodentia, Muridae), from the islands of Amami oshima and Okinawa, in the Ryukyu Islands (=the Nansei Islands), southern Japan, were examined and measured. Each specimen was classified into one of five age groups (I-V) determined by the wear of the three upper molars. The spiny rat of Okinawa has on average within age groups III and IV a statistically longer and wider skull and a longer molar row than that of Amami Oshima. However, neither the posterior nor the central parts of the skull length and width differ between the two islands. Against the same size of head and body length (H&BL) or incisor - the third upper molar length (I-M3), the spiny rat of Okinawa has longer I-M3 or narrower zygomatic arches than the spiny rat of Amami Oshima, The Okinawan spiny rat has a wider first upper molar (wM1≧ 1.9 mm), whereas that of Amami Oshima is wM1 ≦ 1.8 mm. The Okinawan spiny rat has the palatine foramen of the skull situated more posteriorly than that of Amami Oshima. These findings indicate conclusively that the spiny rat populations on the two islands of Amami oshima and Okinawa have distinctly different morphological characteristics, in addition to having different karyotypes, and as such they should be regarded as distinct species. The spiny rat of Amami Oshima should be named as Tokudaia osimensis (Abe, 1933) while that of Okinawa should be known as Tokudaia muenninki (Johnson, 1946).
- Mammalogical Society of Japanの論文
- 2001-06-01
著者
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金子 之史
香川大学教育学部生物学教室
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金子 之史
香川大・教育・生物
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金子 之史
香川大学教育学部
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Kaneko Yukibumi
Biological Laboratory Faculty Of Education Kagawa University
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