Volemys millicens
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Volemys millicens (Thomas 1911)
[Microtus] millicens Thomas 1911, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911 (100): 49.
Type Locality: China, NW Sichuan, Weichoe, Si-ho River Valley, 12,000 ft (3658 m).
Vernacular Names: Sichuan Vole.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality and SE Xizang, Tibet (Feng et al., 1986).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Detailed descriptions provided by Thomas (1911 e), G. M. Allen (1940), and Ellerman (1961); Lawrence (1982) described traits that distinguish it from V. musseri. Gromov and Polyakov (1977) provisionally allocated millicens to subgenus Neodon of Microtus. Feng et al. (1986) identified ten specimens from SE Xizang (Tibet) as millicens, although their measurements average larger than those of the type series (compare Feng et al., 1986:396, with Lawrence, 1982:16). All of the Tibetan specimens are morphologically similar to V. millescens, not V. musseri, according to Darrin Lunde (pers. comm., 2004) who examined the sample at IZAS in Beijing. The locality of millicens mapped by Zhang et al. (1997) in S Yunnan needs verification; the site is more plausible for Microtus clarkei.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Volemys
- Species
- millicens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Volemys millicens (Thomas, 1911) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Feng Zuo-jiang, Cai Gui-quan, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1986. [The mammals of Xizang. The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau]. Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 423 pp. (in Chinese).
- Thomas, O. 1911 e. The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of Eastern Asia. - XV. On mammals from the provinces of Szechwan and Yunnan, western China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 127 - 141.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.
- Lawrence, M. A. 1982. Western Chinese arvicolines (Rodentia) collected by the Sage Expedition. American Museum Novitates, 2745: 1 - 19.
- 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).
- Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp.