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Pitymys ciscaucasicus

Description

Pitymys ciscaucasicus (Ognev, 1924). Gryzuny Severnovo Kavkaza, p. 34.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Gruzinsk. S.S. R. (Georgia), near Vladikavkaz (^Ordzhonikidze).

DISTRIBUTION: N. Caucasus Mtns. (U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus probably Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974; regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, as a synonym of subterraneus, and by Corbet, 1978:109, of majori; Kratochvil and Kral, 1974, Zool. Listy, 23:289-302, provided evidence of specific distinctness.

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 500, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Biodiversity

Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Pitymys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Ognev
Species
ciscaucasicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pitymys ciscaucasicus (Ognev, 1924) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
  • Kratochvil, J., and B. Kral. 1974. Karyotypes and relationship of Palaearctic " 54 - chromosome " Pitymys species (Microtidae, Rodentia). Zoologicke Listy, 23: 289 - 302.