Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya 1978

Description

Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978. Zool. Zh., 57: 1224.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Buryat-Mongolsk. A.S.S. R., Bauntovsk. Obi., Miyha River at Miyha.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; (RSH from V. G. Orlov, pers. comm.); Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978, Zool. Zh., 57: 1224- 1232, described this species as morphologically close to maximowiczii, but the species are karyotypically different and Fl hybrids are sterile (SRL). Gromov and Baranova, 1981:209, indicated that the name is based on an earlier publication (Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 32); which may be a nomen nudum (RSH).

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 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Scientific name authorship
Orlov and Kovalskaya
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Microtus
Species
mujanensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtus mujanensis and, 1978 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Orlov, V. N., and Yu. M. Kovalskaya. 1978. [Microtus mujanensis sp. n. from the Vitim River Basin.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57: 1224 - 1232 (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).