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Microtus agrestis
Description
Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761). Fauna Suec., 11(2):11.
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala.
DISTRIBUTION: Britain, Scandinavia, and France east through Europe and Siberia to Lena River; south to Pyrennes, N. Portugal, N. Yugoslavia, Altai Mtns., Sinkiang (China) (SW), and Lake Baikal.
COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; see Anderson, 1959, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:496 (Arvalomys of Chaline, 1974:440-450). Sometimes regarded as conspecific with pennsylvanicus, as by Klimkiewicz, 1970, Mammalia, 34:641-665, but not closely related; see Frank, 1959, Z. Saugetierk., 24:91-93, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1976, in Kontrimavichus, ed., [Beringia in Cenozoic], Acad. Sci. Vladivostok.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080001001.
Notes
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 page 490, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD61569FFA704276E76FFF8C013FFC6 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Arvicolidae
- Genus
- Microtus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- agrestis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Anderson, S. 1959. Distribution, variation, and relationships of the montane vole, Microtus montanus. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 9: 415 - 511.
- Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.
- Klimkiewicz, M. K. 1970. The taxonomic status of the nominal species Microtus pennsylvanicus and Microtus agrestis (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mammalia, 34: 640 - 655.
- Vorontsov, N. N., and L. Ya Martynova. 1976. Population cytogenetics of Altai zokor Myospalax myospalax Laxm. (Rodentia, myospalacinae). Doklady Biological Sciences, 230 (1 - 6): 401 - 404 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 230 (2): 447 - 449).