Synonyms

• Acanthomys osimensis Tokuda, 1941: 95
• Rattus fulvescens osimensis Ellerman, 1941: 193
• Rattus jerdoni osimensis Abe, 1933: 942 (protonym)
• Tokudaia osimensis Kuroda, 1943: 61
• Tokudamys osimensis osimensis Johnson, 1946: 169

Primary references

• Abe, Y. 1933. アマミトゲネズミに就いて [On the Amami Ōshima spiny rat.] Botany and Zoology 1: 936–942. Reference page. 

• Ellerman, J.R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Volume 2. Family Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. xii + 690 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Tokuda, M. A revised monograph of the Japanese and Manchou-Korean Muridae. Biogeographica: transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 4(1): 1–155. Reference page. 

• 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. 

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

• IUCN: Tokudaia osimensis (Abe, 1933) (Endangered)