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Alticola roylei Gray 1842

Description

Alticola roylei Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10:265.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, "Cashmere.”

DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Afghanistan, N. Pakistan, probably adjacent Tibet and N. India; Pamir, Tien Shan, Altai, and other ranges, north to Lake Baikal, and east through Mongolia to Sinkiang (China).

COMMENT: Includes argentatus and barakschin; see Heptner and Rossolimo, 1968, Sbor. Tr. Zool. Mus. Moscow State Univ., 10:53-93; but argentatus may be a distinct species and barakschin may be a subspecies of stoliczkanus; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977, [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8):129. Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:133, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 176, both treated argentatus, as a distinct species and the latter excluded barakschin from roylei.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008068003001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 479, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Alticola
Species
roylei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Alticola roylei Gray, 1842 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • 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).
  • Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).
  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).