Eothenomys andersoni (Thomas, 1905). Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 23: 18. TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, N. Honshu, Iwate Ken, Tsunagi, near Morioka. DISTRIBUTION: Honshu (Japan). COMMENT: Formerly included in Aschizomys; includes niigatae, from C. Honshu, and imaizumii from S. Honshu; see Corbet, 1978: 100, and Aimi, 1980, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ. Ser. Biol., 8: 35-84; both were considered distinct species by Ota and Jameson, 1961, Pacif. Sci., 15:594-604, and Imaizumi, 1960, Coloured Illustrations of the Mammals of Japan, 196 pp. Ota and Jameson, 1961, Ecology, 42: 184-186, Ota and Jameson, 1961, Pacif. Sci., 15:594-604, Gromov and Polyakov, 1977: 147, and Corbet, 1978: 100, placed andersoni in Clethrionomys.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 485-486, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034