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Microtus transcaspicus Satunin 1905

Description

Microtus transcaspicus Satunin, 1905. Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 2:57.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkmenistan, Kopet Dag Mtns, Chuli Valley, near Ashkhabad.

DISTRIBUTION: S Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, and N Iran.

SYNONYMS: khorkoutensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Microtus, arvalis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990). Taxonomy reviewed by Gromov and Polyakov (1977), Corbet (1978c), Malygin (1978), Meier et al. (1981), and Meier (1983).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 531, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Microtus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Satunin
Species
transcaspicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtus transcaspicus Satunin, 1905 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

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).
  • 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).
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Malygin, V. M. 1978. [A comparative-morphological analysis of species from the group Microtus arvalis (Rodentia, Cricetidae).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67: 1062 - 1073 (in Russian).