Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Microtus middendorffi

Description

Microtus middendorffi (Poliakov, 1881). Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 39(2): 70.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Krasnoyarsk. Krai, Taimyr Peninsula.

DISTRIBUTION: N.C. and N.E. Siberia, from the Polar Ural Mtns, to the Kolyma River, and N. of Magadan.

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; see Matthey and Zimmerman, 1961, Rev. Suisse Zool., 68:63-72; includes hyperboreus, see Gileva, 1972, Dokl. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 203:689-692, and Pokrovskii et al., 1975, [Population fluctuations of animals], Acad. Sci., Sverdlovsk, p. 39-62; see also Corbet, 1978:116; but see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:312, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:214; OLR also retains hyperboreus as a separate species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080025001 as M. middendorffi.

5301410008080016001 as M. hyperboreus.

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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Biodiversity

Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Microtus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Poliakov
Species
middendorffi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtus middendorffi (Poliakov, 1881) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Gileva, E. A. 1972. [Chromosomal polymorphism in two close forms of subarctic mice (Microtus hyperboreus and M. middendorffi)]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 203: 698 - 692 (in Russian).
  • Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).
  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).