Microtus agrestis
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Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761). Fauna Suecica, 2nd ed., p. 11.
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala.
DISTRIBUTION: Britain and nearby small islands, Scandinavia, and France east through Europe and Siberia to Lena River; south to Pyrennes of France and Spain, and to N Portugal; east to N Yugoslavia, S Urals, Altai Mtns, NW China (Xinjiang), and Lake Baikal region (Corbet, 1978c; Krapp and Niethammer, 1982).
SYNONYMS: angustifrons, arcturus, argyropoli, argyropuli, argyropuloi, armoricanus, bailloni, campestris, britannicus, carinthiacus, enez-groezi, estiae, exsul, fiona, gregarius, hirta, insularis, intermedia, latifrons, levenedii, luch, macgillivrayi, miai, mongol, neglectus, nigra, nigricans, ognevi, orioecus, pannonicus, punctus, rozianus, rufa, scaloni, tridentinus, wettsteini.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Agricola, agrestis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990). Although regarded as conspecific with North American M. pennsylvanicus on morphological grounds (Klimkiewicz, 1970), chomosomal differences led Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1986) to conclude that their similarities represented convergence, not phylogenetic alliance; instead they remarked upon possible closer relationship of M. agrestis to North American M. chrotorrhinus. Zagorodnyuk (1990) emphasized this evolutionary distance by placing M. pennsylvanicus in the subgenus Mynomes. Chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a); European populations reviewed by Krapp and Niethammer (1982).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
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References
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian).
- Klimkiewicz, M. K. 1970. The taxonomic status of the nominal species Microtus pennsylvanicus and Microtus agrestis (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mammalia, 34: 640 - 655.
- Vorontsov, N. N., and E. A. Lyapunova. 1986. Genetics and problems of Trans-Beringian connections of Holarctic mammals. Pp. 441 - 481, in Beringia in the Cenozoic Era (V. L. Kontrimavichus, ed.) [translation of Beringiya v Kainozoe, 1976]. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 724 pp.
- Zima, J., and B. Kral. 1984 a. Karyotypes of European mammals. II. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Academiae Scientarium Bohemoslovacae (Brno), 18 (8): 1 - 62.