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Microtus (Terricola) multiplex Fatio 1905

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Microtus (Terricola) multiplex Fatio 1905

Microtus (Terricola) multiplex Fatio 1905, Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Geneve, ser. 4, 19: 193.

Type Locality: Switzerland, Ticino Canton, near Lugano.

Vernacular Names: Alpine Pine Vole.

Synonyms: Microtus (Terricola) druentius (Miller 1911); Microtus (Terricola) fatioi (Mottaz 1909); Microtus (Terricola) leponticus Thomas 1906; Microtus (Terricola) niethammeri Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev 1994; Microtus (Terricola) orientalis Dal Piaz 1924; Microtus (Terricola) vuillemeyi Brunet-Lecomte, Chaline, and Campy 1993.

Distribution: Western and Central Alps in E France, Switzerland (Maurizio, 1994; Hausser, 1995), far W Austria, and N Italy, including N Italian Apennines (Amori et al., 1999; Cantini, 1991; Paolucci et al., 1994). The Adige River Valley (Trentino region) in the Alps of NE Italy is apparently the boundary between ranges of M. multiplex (to the west) and M. liechtensteini (eastward); see Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev (1994), Haring et al. (2000), and Spitzenberger et al. (2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Terricola, subterraneus species group (Chaline et al., 1988; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) or multiplex species group (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Most closely related to M. bavaricus and M. liechtensteini (see latter account for discussion of relationships). Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev (1994) and Brunet-Lecomte (1995) identified populations from the W French Alps and Rhone Valley, at the western margin of the geographic range, as the subspecies niethammeri based on m1 morphology and chromosomes. The taxon vuillemeyi was described as a fossil subspecies from the Pleistocene of E France (Brunet-Lecomte et al., 1993).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1009, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fatio
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Microtus
Species
multiplex
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species
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Microtus (Terricola) multiplex Fatio, 1905 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Brunet-Lecomte, P., and V. Volobouev. 1994. Comparative morphometry and cytogenetics of Microtus (Terricola) multiplex (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) of the western French Alps. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 59: 116 - 125.
  • Brunet-Lecomte, P., J. Chaline, and M. Campy. 1993. Microtus (Terricola) multiplex vuillemeyi nov. ssp., campagnol souterrain du site pleistocene de Gigny (Jura, France). Revue de Paleobiologie, Geneve, 12 (2): 335 - 344.
  • Maurizio, R. 1994. I piccoli mammiferi (Mammalia: Insectivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Carnivora) della Bregaglia (Grigioni, Svizzera). Il Naturalista Valtellinese-Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Morbegno, 5: 91 - 138.
  • Hausser, J. 1995. Saugetiere der Schweiz. Verbreitung. Biologie. Okologie. Birkhauser Verlag: Basel, 501 pp.
  • Amori, G., F. M. Angelici, and L. Boitani. 1999. Mammals of Italy: A revised checklist of species and subspecies (Mammalia). Senckenbergiana biologica, 79 (2): 271 - 286.
  • Cantini, M. 1991. Comunita di piccoli Mammiferi (Mammalia: Insectivora, Rodentia, Carnivora) nell'Alto Lario Orientale (Lombardia, Italia) e valutazioni della qualita ambientale. Il Naturalista Valtellinese-Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Morbegno, 2: 71 - 98.
  • Haring, E., B. Herzig-Straschil, and F. Spitzenberger. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of Alpine voles of the Microtus multiplex complex using the mitochondrial control region. Journal of Zoological and Systematic Evolutionary Research, 38: 231 - 238.
  • Spitzenberger, F., P. Brunet-Lecomte, A. Nadachowski, and K. Bauer. 2000. Comparative morphometrics of the first lower molar in Microtus (Terricola) cf. liechtensteini of the Eastern Alps. Acta Theriologica, 45 (4): 471 - 483.
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian).
  • 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).