Microtus irani Thomas 1921
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Microtus irani Thomas, 1921. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 27:581.
TYPE LOCALITY: Iran, Fars Prov., Shiraz, Bagh-i-Rezi.
DISTRIBUTION: E Turkey, N Syria, Lebanon, Israel, W Jordan, Cyrenaica in Libya, N Iraq, W and N Iran, and Kopet Dag Mtns in Turkmenistan.
SYNONYMS: mustersi, paradoxus, mystacinus.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Microtus, socialis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990). Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) listed M. irani in the subgenus Sumeriomys, a name not recognized by Zagorodnyuk (1990). Corbet (1978c) and Harrison and Bates (1991) included irani in M. socialis, but the two are distinct species as documented by Morlok (1978) and Kock and Nader (1983), who also noted that most records of M. guentheri from Syria, Lebanon, and Israel are M. irani and that philistinus may be an older name for irani. The isolated Lybian population was reviewed, under mustersi, by Ranck (1968). The status of paradoxus (from Kopet Dag Mtns) deserves reevaluation: Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) treated it as a synonym of irani but Zagorodnyuk (1990) maintained it as distinct.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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References
- Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian).
- Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.
- Morlok, W. F. 1978. Nagetiere aus der Turkei. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 59: 155 - 162.
- Nader, I. A., D. Kock, and A. - K. Al-Khalili. 1983. Eliomys melanurus (Wagner 1839) and Praomys fumatus (Peters 1878) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 63 (5 - 6): 313 - 324.
- Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.