Myodes californicus Merriam 1890
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Myodes californicus Merriam 1890
Myodes californicus Merriam 1890, N. Amer. Fauna, 4: 26.
Type Locality: USA, California, Humboldt Co., Eureka.
Vernacular Names: Western Red-backed Vole.
Synonyms: Myodes obscurus (Merriam 1897).
Distribution: Coastal coniferous forest from the Columbia River south through W Oregon (Verts and Carraway, 1998:Fig. 11-97) to NW California, USA.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Clethrionomys californicus.
Discussion: The name occidentalis was formerly applied to this species (e.g., Hall and Cockrum, 1953), but populations north of the Columbia River, which include occidentalis and caurinus, have been reassigned to M. gapperi (Cowan and Guiguet, 1965; Johnson and Ostenson, 1959). See Alexander and Verts, 1992 (Mammalian Species, 406).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Merriam
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Myodes
- Species
- californicus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myodes californicus Merriam, 1890 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Merriam, C. H. 1890. Description of a new prairie dog from Wyoming. North American Fauna, 4: 33 - 35.
- Merriam, C. H. 1897. The generic names Ictis, Arctogale, and Arctogalidia. Science, 5: 302.
- Verts, B. J., and L. N. Carraway. 1998. Land mammals of Oregon. University of California Press, Berkeley, xvi + 668 pp.
- Hall, E. R., and E. L. Cockrum. 1953. A synopsis of the North American microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 5: 373 - 498.
- Cowan, I. McT., and C. J. Guiguet. 1965. The mammals of British Columbia. Third Ed. British Columbia Provincial Museum, Handbook, 11: 1 - 414.
- Johnson, M. L., and B. T. Ostenson. 1959. Comments on the nomenclature of some mammals of the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Mammalogy, 40: 571 - 577.