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Microtus sikimensis
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Microtus sikimensis (Hodgson, 1849). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 3:203.
TYPE LOCALITY: India, Sikkim.
DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas from W Nepal east through Sikkim, Bhutan, to S and E Xizang (Tibet; Feng et al., 1986).
SYNONYMS: thricolis.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Neodon, a member, along with irene, of the sikimensis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990). Geographic distribution is parapatric on E Tibetan Plateau with A4, irene (see that account).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 529, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Microtus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hodgson
- Species
- sikimensis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus sikimensis (Hodgson, 1849) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Feng Zuo-jiang, Cai Gui-quan, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1986. [The mammals of Xizang. The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau]. Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 423 pp. (in Chinese).
- Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian).