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Microtus xanthognathus

Description

Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815). Zool. Mise., 1:60.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Manitoba, Hudson Bay.

DISTRIBUTION: Western boreal taiga zone: EC Alaska to W Northwest Territories, southeastwards to C Alberta and western coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.

COMMENTS: Relationships obscure: probably not a sister species to M. chrotorrhinus as once believed (see that account and Lidicker and Yang, 1986); placed by Zagorodnyuk (1990) in the subgenus Aulacomys, richardsoni species group. Karyotype reported and affinities discussed by Rausch and Rausch (1974).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 531, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Microtus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Leach
Species
xanthognathus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Lidicker, W. Z., Jr., and A. Yang. 1986. Morphology of the penis in the taiga vole (Microtus xanthognathus). Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 497 - 502.
  • 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).
  • Rausch, V. R., and R. L. Rausch. 1974. The chromosome complement of the yellow-cheeked vole, Microtus xanthognathus (Leach). Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, 16: 267 - 272.