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Microtus miurus Osgood 1901
Description
Microtus miurus Osgood, 1901. N. Am. Fauna, 21:64.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, Mtns, near Hope City, head of Bear Creek.
DISTRIBUTION: W. Alaska (U.S.A.) east to extreme W. Northwest Territories and south to S.W. Yukon (Canada).
COMMENT: Subgenus Stenocranius; see Anderson, 1960:200; placed by Rausch, 1964, Z. Saugetierk., 29:343-358, and Rausch and Rausch, 1968, Z. Saugetierk., 33:65-99, in gregalis; reinstated as a species by Fedyk, 1970, Acta Theriol., 15: 143-152. Regarded as conspecific with abbreviatus by MLJ.
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 494, 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
- Osgood
- Species
- miurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus miurus Osgood, 1901 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Anderson, S. 1960. The baculum in microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 12: 181 - 216.
- Rausch, R. L. 1964. The specific status of the narrow-skulled vole (subgenus Stenocranius Kashchenko) in North America. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 29: 343 - 358.
- Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1968. On the biology and systematic position of Microtus abbreviatus Miller, a vole endemic to the St. Matthew Islands, Bering Sea. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 33: 65 - 99.
- Fedyk, S. 1970. Chromosomes of Microtus (Stenocranius) gregalis major (Ognev, 1923) and phylogenetic connections between sub-arctic representatives of the genus Microtus Schrank, 1798. Acta Theriologica, 15: 143 - 152.