Microtus miurus Osgood 1901
Microtus miurus Osgood 1901 Microtus miurus Osgood 1901, N. Amer. Fauna, 21: 64. Type Locality: USA, Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, head of Bear Creek in mountains near Hope City. Vernacular Names: Singing Vole. Synonyms: Microtus andersoni Rand 1945; Microtus cantator Anderson 1947; Microtus mu...
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| Summary: | Microtus miurus Osgood 1901 Microtus miurus Osgood 1901, N. Amer. Fauna, 21: 64. Type Locality: USA, Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, head of Bear Creek in mountains near Hope City. Vernacular Names: Singing Vole. Synonyms: Microtus andersoni Rand 1945; Microtus cantator Anderson 1947; Microtus muriei Nelson 1931; Microtus oreas Osgood 1907; Microtus paneaki Rausch 1950. Distribution: Alaska, USA, except the central portion and Alaska Peninsula; eastwards through much of Yukon Territory to westernmost Northwest Territories and extreme NW British Columbia, Canada. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus indeterminate. Classically treated as a member of the subgenus Stenocranius (e.g., Hall, 1981; Miller and Kellogg, 1955), an association that purported close affinity to Old World M. gregalis (see that account); synonymized with same to form a Holarctic species by Rausch (1964) and Rausch and Rausch (1968). Other data convincingly argue their specific distinctiveness and distant kinship (Anderson, 1960; Fedyk, 1970; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1986), and phylogenetic studies of chromosomes (Zagorodnyuk, 1990) and mitochondrial DNA sequences (Conroy and Cook, 2000 a ) require the removal of M. miurus (along with M. abbreviatus ) from Stenocranius proper. Zagorodnyuk (1990) had emphasized this divergence by placing M. miurus in the subgenus Alexandromys , M. middendorfii species group, along with M. mongolicus and M. sachalinensis . According to the results of Conroy and Cook (2000 a ), M. miurus , and its sister species M. abbreviatus , originated early within the radiation of North American Microtus , apart from Palearctic species. Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1007, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 |
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