Microtus oregoni
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Microtus oregoni (Bachman, 1839). J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8:60.
TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Oregon, Clatsop Co., Astoria.
DISTRIBUTION: Moist coniferous forest seres of Pacific Northwest, from SW British Columbia, Canada, south to NW California, USA.
SYNONYMS: adocetus, bairdi, cantwelli, morosus, serpens.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Mynomes, sole member of oregoni species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990). Type species of Chilotus, conventionally recognized as a subgenus of Microtus (see Anderson, 1959, 1960; Bailey, 1900), and occasionally including Old World M. socialis as a comember (Chaline, 1974; Ognev, 1964) or not (Anderson, 1959). Hooper and Hart (1962), however, found the morphological evidence insufficient to warrant subgeneric segregation of oregoni from North American species of Microtus, a viewpoint sustained by genetic distance comparisons (Moore and Janecek, 1990) and reflected in the classification of Zagorodnyuk (1990). Diploid number and sexdetermining mechanism unique among North American Microtus studied (Ohno et al., 1963). See Carraway and Verts, 1985 (Mammalian Species, 233).
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- 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).
- Anderson, S. 1959. Distribution, variation, and relationships of the montane vole, Microtus montanus. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 9: 415 - 511.
- Anderson, S. 1960. The baculum in microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 12: 181 - 216.
- Bailey, V. E. 1900. Revision of American voles of the genus Microtus. North American Fauna, 17: 1 - 88.
- 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.
- Ognev, S. I. 1964. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1950, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 7: 1 - 626.
- Hooper, E. T., and B. S. Hart. 1962. A synopsis of Recent North American microtine rodents. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 120: 1 - 68.
- Moore, D. W., and L. L. Janacek. 1990. Genic relationships among North American Microtus (Mammalia: Rodentia). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 59: 249 - 259.
- Ohno, S., J. Jainchill, and C. Stenius. 1963. The creeping vole (Microtus oregoni) as a gonosomic mosaic I. The OY / XY constitution of the male. Cytogenetics, 2: 232 - 239.
- Carraway, L. N., and B. J. Verts. 1985. Microtus oregoni. Mammalian Species, 233: 1 - 6.