[ **up: [[Animals]] | [[Mammals]] | [[Rodents]] | [[Muridae (Family)]]** ] --- # *Tokudaia* (Genus) > 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-contiguous islands. Despite differences in name and appearance, they are the closest living relatives of the Eurasian field mouse (Apodemus).[^1] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - [[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]] - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Eutherians|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Rodents|Rodentia (Order)]] - [[Muridae (Family)]] - *[[Tokudaia (Genus)]]* <small>TOKUDAIA</small> --- [^1]: ‘*Tokudaia*’, *Wikipedia*, updated 22 January 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokudaia.