Tokudaia

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Tokudaia Fossil range: Late Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Euarchontoglires Order: Rodentia Suborder: Myomorpha Superfamily: Muroidea Family: Muridae Subfamily: Murinae Tribe: Apodemurini Genus: Tokudaia Kuroda, 1943
Species
See text.

Tokudaia is a genus of murine rodent native to Japan. Known as Ryūkyū spiny rats or spinous country-rats, population groups exist on several non-contigous islands^[1]. Despite their common name and appearance, they are the closest living relatives of the Eurasian field mice (Apodemus).

Named species are:^{[verification needed]}

• Tokudaia muenninki
• Tokudaia osimensis

At least the latter may be a cryptic species complex.

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