Microtus oeconomus
Description
Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 3:693.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Omsk. Obi., Ishim Valley.
DISTRIBUTION: N. Palearctic, from Scandinavia and the Netherlands east to Chukotka (U.S. S.R.); south to S.E. Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Szechwan, and Heilungkiang (China) (SW), and Ussuri region; Kurile Islands and Sakhalin; St. Lawrence Isl. (Bering Sea); Alaska (U.S.A.); Yukon and Northwest Territories (Canada).
COMMENT: Subgenus Sumeriomys (= Suranomys Chaline, 1974), see Argyropulo, 1933, Z. Saugetierk., 8:180-182; or Microtus; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:295, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:209. The taxon limnophilus, an isolate described from the Tsaidam, Tsinghai, China, is usually assigned to this species (see Corbet, 1978:115), but may be a distinct species; see Orlov et al., 1978, [Geogr. and Dynamics of Plants and Anim. in the Mongolian People's Republic], p. 149- 164; also see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:151, who included Sinkiang, Kansu, N.W. China, and W. Mongolia in the distribution of limnophilus, which they considered a distinct species. Includes ratticeps; see Corbet, 1978:115. Ognev, 1950, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R. and Adj. Count.], Vol. 7, Rodents, Engl. Trans., 1964:1 -626, and Ellerman, 1941, differed in the name used for this species; see Hall, 1981:805. Ognev's arguments for ratticeps are convincing, but would require nomenclatural reorganization in two subgenera. This problem might be best submitted to the ICZN for resolution (SRL).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080032001.
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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
- Pallas
- Species
- oeconomus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.
- 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).
- Orlov, V. N., and Yu. M. Kovalskaya. 1978. [Microtus mujanensis sp. n. from the Vitim River Basin.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57: 1224 - 1232 (in Russian).
- Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).
- Ognev, S. I. 1950. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 7: 1 - 706 + 15 maps (in Russian).
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- 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.