Micromys minutus
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Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 1:454.
TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Ulyanovsk. Obi. Middle Volga River, Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk).
DISTRIBUTION: From NW Spain through most of Europe, across Siberia to Ussuri region and Korea, north to about 65° in European Russia and Yakutia, south to N edge of Caucasus and N Mongolia; isolated ranges in S China west through Yunnan to SE Tibet and NE India (Assam). Island distributions include Britain, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Tsushima), Quelpart Isl (Korea), and Taiwan; see Corbet (1978c) for details.
SYNONYMS: agilis, aokii, arundinaceus, avenarius, batarovi, campestris, danubialis, erythrotis, fenniae, flavus, hertigi, hondonis, japonicus, kytmanovi, meridionalis, messorius, minatus, minimus, oryzivorus, parvulus, pendulinus, pratensis, pumilus, sareptae, soricinus, subobscurus, takasagoensis, triticeus, ussuricus.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984). Chromosomal information reported by Jüdes (1981), Zima (1983), Lungeanu et al. (1984), Solleder et al. (1984), and Schmid et al. (1987). European populations reviewed by Böhme (1978«). Phallic morphology of Chinese samples described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing relationships among Chinese murines.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
References
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Corbet, G. B. 1984. The mammals of the Palearctic region: A taxonomic review. Supplement. British Museum (Natural History), London, 45 pp.
- Judes, U. 1981. G- and C-band karyotypes of the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus. Genetica, 54: 237 - 239.
- Zima, J. 1983. Chromosomes of the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus, from the Danube Delta (Muridae, Rodentia). Folia Zoologica, 32: 19 - 22.
- Lungeanu, A., L. Gavrila, C. Stepan, and D. Murariu. 1984. Donnees preliminaires concernant l'etude du caryotype de Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) (Rodentia, Muridae). Travaux du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle " Grigore Antipa ", 26: 241 - 244.
- Solleder, E., M. Schmid, B. Inglin, and T. Haaf. 1984. Cytogenetic studies on the mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Micromys minutus (Rodentia, Murinae). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 49: 284 - 289.
- Schmid, M., R. Johannisson, T. Haaf, and H. Neitzel. 1987. The chromosomes of Micromys minutus (Rodentia, Murinae). II. Pairing pattern of X and Y chromosomes in meiotic prophase. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 45: 121 - 131.
- Yang An-feng and Fang Li-xiang. 1988. [Phallic morphology of 13 species of the family Muridae from China, with comments on its taxonomic significance.] Acta Theriologica Sinica, 8: 275 - 287 (in Chinese with English summary).