Microtus oeconomus
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Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 3:693.
TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Ishim Valley.
DISTRIBUTION: Tundra and northern taiga of Holarctic: in Palearctic, from Scandinavia and the Netherlands across to borderlands of Bering Sea, including Sakhalin and Kurile islands, and south to E Germany, Ukraine, S Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the Ussuri region; St. Lawrence Isl in Bering Sea; in Nearctic, from Alaska through Yukon Territory to W Northwest Territories and extreme NW British Columbia, Canada.
SYNONYMS: altaicus, amakensis, anikini, arenicola, dauricus, elymocetes, endoecus, finmarchicus, flaviventris, gilmorei, hahlovi, innuitus, kamtschatica, karaginensis, kjusjurensis, kodiacensis, koreni, macfarlani, malcolmi, médius, mehelyi, montium-caelestinum, naumovi, operarius, ouralensis, petshorae, popofensis, punukensis, ratticeps, shantaricus, sitkensis, stimmingi, suntaricus, tschuktschorum, uchidae, unalascensis, uralensis, yakutatensis.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiinus, oeconomus species group, including M. montebelli and M. limnophilus (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Conspecific stature of Old and New World populations averred by Zimmermann (1942) and sustained by subsequent studies (Nadler et al., 1976, 1978; Ognev, 1964; Rausch, 1953). Geographic variation and subspecies of Nearctic populations reviewed by Paradiso and Manville (1961); Russian populations by Gromov and Polyakov (1977); European populations by Tast (1982b). Chromosomal data is summarized and evaluated by Zima and Krâl (1984a). Ecological and distributional details of the species at its southern limit in Poland are described by Salata-Pilacinska (1990). Angermann (1984) analysed intraspecific molar patterns in the context of assessing the range of variation against which patterns in extinct species could be tested.
Ognev (1964), but not Corbet (1978c), identified ratticeps Keyserling and Blasius, 1841, as the proper name applicable to this species (also see discussions in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:705; and Hall, 1981:805). Although systematists continue to utilize oeconomus Pallas, 1776, for reasons of familiarity, this nomenclatural uncertainty needs formal resolution.
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References
- 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).
- Zimmermann, K. 1942. Zur Kenntnis von Microtus oeconomus (Pallas). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Neue Folge, 11: 174 - 197.
- Nadler, C. F., V. R. Rausch, E. A. Lyapunova, R. S. Hoffmann, and N. N. Vorontsov. 1976. Chromosomal banding patterns of the Holarctic rodents, Clethrionomys rutilus and Microtus oeconomus. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 41: 137 - 146.
- Ognev, S. I. 1964. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1950, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 7: 1 - 626.
- Rausch, R. L. 1953. On the status of some Arctic mammals. Arctic (Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America), 6: 91 - 148.
- Paradiso, J. L., and R. H. Manville. 1961. Taxonomic notes on the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus) in Alaska. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 74: 77 - 92.
- 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).
- Tast, J. 1982 b. Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776) -- Nordische Wuhlmaus, Sumpfmaus. Pp. 374 - 396, in Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (Wiesbaden), 2 / I: 1 - 649.
- Zima, J., and B. Kral. 1984 a. Karyotypes of European mammals. II. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Academiae Scientarium Bohemoslovacae (Brno), 18 (8): 1 - 62.
- Salata-Pilacinska, B. 1990. The southern range of the root vole in Poland. Acta Theriologica, 35: 53 - 67.
- Angermann, R. 1984. Intraspezifische Variabilitat der Molarenmuster bei der Nordischen Wuhlmaus (Microtus oeconomus [Pallas, 1776]) (Mammalia, Rodentia, Microtinae). Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 39: 115 - 136.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 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.