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Microtus abbreviatus Miller 1899
Description
Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 13: 13.
REVIEWED BY: M. L. Johnson (MLJ).
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Bering Sea, Hall Isl.
DISTRIBUTION: Hall and St. Matthew Isis. (Alaska, U.S.A.).
COMMENT: Subgenus Stenocranius; see Rausch and Rausch, 1968, Z. Saugetierk., 36:65-99. Related to miurus of the Alaskan mainland; see Fedyk, 1970, Acta Theriol., 15: 143-152, Nelson, 1931, J. Mammal., 12:311, and Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, p. 169. MLJ considers miurus conspecific with abbreviatus.
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 489, 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
- Miller
- Species
- abbreviatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- 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.
- Rausch, R. L. 1977. On the zoogeography of some Beringian mammals. Pp. 162 - 177, in Uspekhi sovremennoi teriologii [Advances in modern theriology] (V. E. Sokolov, ed.). Nauka, Moscow, 296 pp. (in Russian).