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Clethrionomys rutilus

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Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 246.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., center of Ob River delta.

DISTRIBUTION: N. Scandinavia east to Chukotka, south to N. Kazakhstan (U.S. S. R.), Mongolia, Transbaikalia, N. E. China, Sakhalin and Hokkaido; St. Lawrence Isl. (Bering Sea); Alaska east to Hudson Bay, south to N. British Columbia and Manitoba (Canada).

COMMENT: Revised by Hinton, 1926, Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae), Br. Mus. Nat. Hist., pp. 1 -488, Manning, 1956, Bull. Nat. Mus. Can., 144:1 -67, and Orr, 1945, J. Mammal., 26:67-74. Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10:85, considered rutilus and gapperi conspecific; but also see Nadler et al., 1978, Can. J. Zool., 56(7): 1564-1575, and Hall, 1981:778-784, and comments under gapperi. Rossolimo, 1971, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 76:63-68, considered rjabovi to be a color mutant of rutilus, but Corbet, 1978:98, listed it as a subspecies.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072005001.

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 pages 481-482, 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
Clethrionomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Species
rutilus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas, 1778) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Manning, T. H. 1956. The northern red-backed mouse, Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas), in Canada. National Museum of Canada Bulletin, 144: 1 - 67.
  • Orr, R. T. 1945. A study of the Clethrionomys dawsoni group of red-backed mice. Journal of Mammalogy, 26: 67 - 74.
  • Youngman, P. M. 1975. Mammals of the Yukon Territory. National Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa), Publications in Zoology, 10: 1 - 192.
  • Nadler, C. F., N. M. Zhurkevich, R. S. Hoffmann, A. I. Kozlovskii, L. Deutsch, and C. F. Nadler, Jr. 1978. Biochemical relationships of the Holarctic vole genera (Clethrionomys, Microtus, and Arvicola (Rodentia: Arvicolinae )). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 56: 1564 - 1575.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Rossolimo, O. L. 1971. [Variability and taxonomy of Dryomys nitedula Pallas.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 50 (2): 247 - 258 (in Russian).