Clethrionomys gapperi
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Clethrionomys gapperi (Vigors, 1830). Zool. J., 5:204.
TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, between York (= Toronto) and Lake Simcoe.
DISTRIBUTION: Most of Canada from N British Columbia to Labrador, excluding Newfoundland; south in the Appalachians to N Georgia, in the Great Plains to N Iowa, and in the Rockies to C New Mexico and EC Arizona, USA.
SYNONYMS: arizonensis, athabascae, brevicaudus, carolinensis, cascadensis, caurinus, fuscodorsalis, galei, gaspeanus, gauti, hudsonius, idahoensis, limitis, loringi, maurus, nivarius, occidentalis, ochraceus, pallescens, paludicola, phaeus, proteus, pygmaeus, rhoadsii, rufescens, rupicola, saturatus, solus, stikinensis, uintaensis, ungava, wrangeli.
COMMENTS: Information on specific relationships somewhat contradictory. Interspecific hybrids of reduced fertility produced from laboratory crosses with Eurasian C. glareolus, which led Grant (1974) to view the two as semispecies of recent divergence. Others (Bee and Hall, 1956; Youngman, 1975) have suggested, without presentation of data, that gapperi and rutilus are conspecific. Based on biochemical data, Nadler et al. (1978) viewed Old World C. rufocanus as closely related to the gapperi-rutilus complex. Most highly variable in gastric morphology among species of Clethrionomys studied by Carleton (1981). See account of C. californiens for allocation of occidentalis and caurinus to C. gapperi. See Merritt (1981, Mammalian Species, 146).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Clethrionomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Vigors
- Species
- gapperi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clethrionomys gapperi (Vigors, 1830) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Grant, P. R. 1974. Reproductive compatibility of voles from separate continents (Mammalia: Clethrionomys). Journal of Zoology, London, 174: 245 - 254.
- Bee, J. W., and E. R. Hall. 1956. Mammals of northern Alaska on the Arctic slope. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 8: 1 - 309.
- 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.
- Carleton, M. D. 1981. A survey of gross stomach morphology in Microtinae (Rodentia, Muroidea). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 46: 93 - 108.
- Merritt, J. F. 1981. Clethrionomys gapperi. Mammalian Species, 146: 1 - 9.