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Myodes rutilus

Description

Myodes rutilus (Pallas, 1778) —Northern Red-backed Vole

Mus rutilus Pallas, 1778 p.246; Type locality- Center of Ob River delta, Siberia, Russia.

Arvicola (Hypudaeus) amurensis Schrenck, 1858 p.129; Type locality- Mouth of Amur River, Siberia.

Clethrionomys rutilus hintoni Vinogradov in Zolotarev, 1936 p.81; Type locality- Iman River, Ussuri, southeastern Siberia; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.375.

C. amurensis amurensis: Kuroda, 1938 p.5.

C. rutilus: Won, 1968 p.207; Corbet, 1978 p.98; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.25; Han, 2004c p.134.

C. rutilus amurensis: Won, 1968 p.208; Yoon, 1992 p.74.

Myodes rutilus: Musser & Carleton, 2005 p.1027.

Range: Myodes rutilus occurs in the extreme northeastern region of the Korean Peninsula (Fig. 121). The southern limit of the range is in Chail Peak, Ryanggang-Province (Kim et al. 2015).

Remarks: The northern red-backed vole in Korea has been regarded as M. r. hintoni or M. r. amurensis. Although hintoni is now considered a synonym of amurensis (Won 1968), a re-examination of the subspecific status for Korean populations of Myodes rutilus seems necessary due to considerable local variation such as shorter tail with long hairs on a floccus (Won 1968). In northeastern Asia, four lineages of M. rutilus (central Siberia, fareastern Siberia, Alaska-Kamchatka/Sakhalin and Hokkaido) were identified by using cytochrome b (Iwasa et al. 2002). Kohli et al. (2015) analyzed the same gene and confirmed similar lineages (western = central Siberia; central = far eastern Siberia; and eastern clade with 3 subgroups, Bering, Sakhalin, and Hokkaido), but nuclear gene analysis showed poor structuring among lineages.

Notes

Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Myodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Species
rutilus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Myodes rutilus (Pallas, 1778) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018

References

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  • Zolotarev, N. T. (1936) Mammals of the Iman river basin (Ussuri territory). Academy of Sciences Press, Moscow-Leningrad, 133 pp.
  • Jones Junior, J. K. & Johnson, D. H. (1965) Synopsis of the lagomorphs and rodents of Korea. University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 359 - 407.
  • Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
  • Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
  • Corbet, G. B. (1978) The mammals of the Palaearctic region: a taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
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  • Han, S. H. (2004 c) Order Rodentia. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 102 - 141. [in Korean]
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  • Iwasa, M. A., Kartavtseva, I. V., Dobrotvorsky, A. K., Panov, V. V. & Suzuki, H. (2002) Local differentiation of Clethrionomys rutilus in northeastern Asia inferred from mitochondrial gene sequences. Mammalian Biology, 67, 157 - 166. https: // doi. org / 10.1078 / 1616 - 5047 - 00023
  • Kohli, B. A., Fedorov, V. B., Waltari, E. & Cook, J. A. (2015) Phylogeography of a Holarctic rodent (Myodes rutilus): testing high-latitude biogeographical hypotheses and the dynamics of range shifts. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 377 - 389. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jbi. 12433