Clethrionomys rutilus
Description
Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 246.
REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., center of Ob River delta.
DISTRIBUTION: N. Scandinavia east to Chukotka, south to N. Kazakhstan (U.S. S. R.), Mongolia, Transbaikalia, N. E. China, Sakhalin and Hokkaido; St. Lawrence Isl. (Bering Sea); Alaska east to Hudson Bay, south to N. British Columbia and Manitoba (Canada).
COMMENT: Revised by Hinton, 1926, Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae), Br. Mus. Nat. Hist., pp. 1 -488, Manning, 1956, Bull. Nat. Mus. Can., 144:1 -67, and Orr, 1945, J. Mammal., 26:67-74. Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10:85, considered rutilus and gapperi conspecific; but also see Nadler et al., 1978, Can. J. Zool., 56(7): 1564-1575, and Hall, 1981:778-784, and comments under gapperi. Rossolimo, 1971, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 76:63-68, considered rjabovi to be a color mutant of rutilus, but Corbet, 1978:98, listed it as a subspecies.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072005001.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD61569FFA704276E76FFF8C013FFC6 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Arvicolidae
- Genus
- Clethrionomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- rutilus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas, 1778) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Manning, T. H. 1956. The northern red-backed mouse, Clethrionomys rutilus (Pallas), in Canada. National Museum of Canada Bulletin, 144: 1 - 67.
- Orr, R. T. 1945. A study of the Clethrionomys dawsoni group of red-backed mice. Journal of Mammalogy, 26: 67 - 74.
- Youngman, P. M. 1975. Mammals of the Yukon Territory. National Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa), Publications in Zoology, 10: 1 - 192.
- Nadler, C. F., N. M. Zhurkevich, R. S. Hoffmann, A. I. Kozlovskii, L. Deutsch, and C. F. Nadler, Jr. 1978. Biochemical relationships of the Holarctic vole genera (Clethrionomys, Microtus, and Arvicola (Rodentia: Arvicolinae )). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 56: 1564 - 1575.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Rossolimo, O. L. 1971. [Variability and taxonomy of Dryomys nitedula Pallas.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 50 (2): 247 - 258 (in Russian).