Mus caroli

Synonymy

• Mus boninensis Kishida, 1926 nom. nud. [Kaneko & Maeda, 2002: 12]
• Mus caroli Bonhote, 1902: 627 [Protonym]
• Mus caroli boninensis Kuroda, 1930
• Mus formosanus Kuroda, 1925: 14, 16
• Mus kurilensis Kuroda, 1924: 119
• Mus (Mus) caroli
• Mus (musculus?) ouwensi Kloss, 1921: 120
• Mus ouwensi Kloss, 1921: 120

Type locality: "Okinawa, Liu-Kiu Islands"; Japan. [Bonhote, 1902: 627]

Eponymy: "Mr. Charles Rothschild" [Bonhote, 1902: 628]

Primary references

• Bonhote, J.L. 1902. On some mammals obtained by the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, from Okinawa, Liu-Kiu Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 9: 626–628. BHL Reference page. 
• Kloss, C.B. 1921. Some rats and mice of the Malay Archipelago. Treubia 2: 115–124. Read Online Reference page. 
• Kishida, K. 1926. 動物教材の根本的研究 [Basic Studies on Zoological Materials.] Reference page. 
• Kuroda, N. 1924. Two new murine rodents from Kurile Islands, Japan. Journal of Mammalogy 5(2): 118–119. DOI: 10.2307/1373616 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Kuroda, N. 1925. 臺灣産哺乳類の蒐集品に就て [Description of a new species of the genus Mus from Formosa]. (Japanese, English) Zoological Magazine 37(435): 1–16. NDL Digital Collections Reference page. 
• Kuroda, N. 1930. 小笠原諸島産哺乳類 [The geographical distribution of mammals in the Bonin Islands.] (Japanese, English (abstract)) Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 1: 81–88. Reference page. 
• Kaneko, Y. & Maeda, K. 2002. A List of Scientific Names and the Types of Mammals Published by Japanese Researchers. [日本人の研究者による哺乳類の学名と模式標本のリスト] (English, Japanese) Honyūrui Kagaku 42(1): 1–21. DOI: 10.11238/mammalianscience.42.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Additional references

• Motokawa, M., Lin, L-K. & Motokawa, J. 2003. Morphological Comparison of Ryukyu Mouse Mus caroli (Rodentia: Muridae) Populations from Okinawajima and Taiwan. Zoological Studies 42(2): 258–267. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Mus caroli in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Vernacular names

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