Myodes rex Imaizumi 1971
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Myodes rex Imaizumi 1971
Myodes rex Imaizumi 1971, J. Mammal. Soc. Japan, 6: 99.
Type Locality: Japan, Rishiri Isl (off NW coast of Hokkaido), Mt Rishiri, Kanrosen.
Vernacular Names: Hokkaido Red-backed Vole.
Synonyms: Myodes montanus (Imaizumi 1972).
Distribution: Hokkaido and small islets of Rishiri and Rebun off NW coast of Hokkaido (Kaneko et al., 1998:25, 28).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion: Treated as a distinct species (Abe, 1973 a, b, 1984) until Aimi (1980) included rex in M. rufocanus, an allocation followed by Corbet (1978 c) and Musser and Carleton (1993). Kaneko and Sato (1993), however, presented morphological traits that distinguish the two as species on Rishiri Isl (also Kaneko et al., 1998) and demonstrated their sympatry and habitat affinities. Subsequent evaluation of ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences clearly sustains the specific integrity of M. rex (Suzuki et al., 1999 b; Wakana et al., 1996). Imaizumi’s (1971) description of M. rex, differential comparisons with M. rufocanus, and records of habitat segregation (M. rufocanus in open grassy fields, M. rex in coniferous forest) are lucid and thorough.
Imaizumi (1972) described montanus (Hidaka Mtns, Hokkaido) as the other species in his M. rex group. A wealth of morphological (Abe, 1973 a, b, 1984; Aimi, 1980), chromosomal (Kashiwabara and Onoyama, 1988; Tsuchiya, 1981), allozymic (Yoshida et al., 1989), and DNA sequence data (Suzuki et al., 1999 b; Wakana et al., 1996) represents montanus as another population of M. rex on Hokkaido. Reports of M. rex on Shikotan and Shibotsu Isls in the S Kurils and on Sakhalin Isl (Kostenko and Allenova, 1978) require verification (Kaneko et al., 1998:25).
Imaizumi (1971, 1972) regarded M. rex to be closely related to M. rufocanus but more primitive in external, cranial, and dental traits. His view is broadly consistent with phylogenetic interpretations of mitochondrial and ribosomal DNA sequences and biogeographic reconstructions of species diversification (Wakana et al., 1996). At present, M. rex, M. rufocanus and M. rutilus occur on Hokkaido (Kaneko, 1994; Kaneko et al., 1998; Wakana et al., 1996).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Imaizumi
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Myodes
- Species
- rex
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myodes rex Imaizumi, 1971 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Imaizumi, Y. 1971. A new vole of the Clethrionomys rufocanus group from Rishiri Island, Japan. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 6: 99 - 103.
- Imaizumi, Y. 1972. Land mammals of the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaido, Japan, with special reference to the origin of an endemic species of the genus Clethrionomys. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 5: 131 - 149.
- Kaneko, Y., K. Nakata, T. Saitoh, N. C. Stenseth, and O. N. Bjornstad. 1998. The biology of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus: A review. Research in Population Ecology, 40: 21 - 37.
- Abe, H. 1973 a. Growth and development in two forms of Clethrionomys. II. Tooth characters, with special reference to phylogenetic relationships. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 57: 229 - 254.
- Al Saleh, A. A., and M. A. Khan. 1984. Cytological studies of certain desert mammals of Saudi Arabia. 1. The karyotype of Jaculus jaculus. Journal of the College of Science, King Saud University, 15 (1): 163 - 168.
- Aimi, M. 1980. A revised classification of the Japanese red-backed voles. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Biology, 8: 35 - 84.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.
- Kaneko, Y., and M. Sato. 1993. [Identification and distribution of red-backed voles from Is. Rishiri, Hokkaido (preliminary study).] Rishiri Town Museum Annual Report, 12: 37 - 47 (in Japanese).
- Suzuki, H., M. Iwasa, M. Harada, S. Wakana, M. Sakaizumi, S. - H. Han, E. Kitahara, Y. Kimura, I. Kartavtseva, and K. Tsuchiya. 1999 b. Molecular phylogeny of red-backed voles in Far East Asia based on variation in ribosomal and mitochrondrial DNA. Journal of Mammalogy, 80 (2): 512 - 521.
- Wakana, S., M. Sakaizumi, K. Tsuchiya, M. Asakawa, S. H. Han, K. Nakata, and H. Suzuki. 1996. Phylogenetic implications of variations in rDNA and mtDNA in red-backed voles collected in Hokkaido, Japan, and in Korea. Mammal Study, 21: 15 - 25.
- Kashiwabara, S., and K. Onoyama. 1988. Karyotypes and G-banding patterns of the red-backed voles, Clethrionomys montanus and C. rufocanus bedfordiae (Rodentia, Microtinae). Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, 13: 33 - 41.
- Tsuchiya, K. 1981. [On the chromosome variations in Japanese cricetid and murid rodents]. Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science), 42: 51 - 58 (in Japanese, with English abstract).
- Yoshida, I., Y. Obara, and N. Matsuoka. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships among seven taxa of the Japanese microtine voles revealed by karyological and biochemical techniques. Zoological Science, 6: 409 - 420.
- Kaneko, Y. 1994. [Muridae.] Pp. 90 - 110 and 168 - 183, in A pictorial guide to the mammals of Japan (H. Abe, N. Ishii, Y. Kaneko, K. Maeda, S. Miura, and M. Yoneda, eds.). Tokai University Publication, Tokyo, 195 pp. (In Japanese).