Synonyms

• Tokudaia muenninki Musser & Carleton, 1993: 670
• Tokudaia osimensis partim Kuroda, 1943: 61
• Tokudaia osimensis muenninki Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951: 558
• Tokudamys osimensis muenninki Johnson, 1946: 170

Eponymy: type specimen collected by David H. Johnson & Odis A. Muennink, 24 September 1945 [Johnson, 1946: 170]

Primary references

• Kuroda, N. 1943. アマミトゲネズミ沖縄島に発見せらる [The occurrence of the spinous rat in Okinawa Island in the central Riu Kiu Islands.] Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 13: 59–64. Reference page. 

• Johnson, D.H. 1946. The spiny rats of the Riu Kiu Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 59: 169–172. BHL Reference page. 

• Ellerman, J.R. & Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History): London. BHL Reference page. 

• Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501–755 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 2rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C. ISBN 9781560982173. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kaneko, Y. 2001. Morphological discrimination of the Ryukyu spiny rat (genus Tokudaia) between the islands of Okinawa and Amami Oshima, in the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Mammal Study 26(1): 17–33. DOI: 10.3106/mammalstudy.26.17 Reference page. 

Links

• Tokudaia muenninki 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.
• IUCN: Tokudaia muenninki (Johnson, 1946) (Critically Endangered)