Myodes gapperi Vigors 1830

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae; Myodes; Myodes gapperi; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11357029; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/68CC23DF2623118C4D1C17266195930B

Myodes gapperi Vigors 1830 Myodes gapperi Vigors 1830, Zool. J., 5: 204. Type Locality: Canada, Ontario, between York (= Toronto) and Lake Simcoe. Vernacular Names: Southern Red-backed Vole. Synonyms: Myodes arizonensis (Cockrum and Fitch 1952); Myodes athabascae (Preble 1908); Myodes brevicaudus (Merriam 1891); Myodes carolinensis (Merriam 1888); Myodes cascadensis (Booth 1945); Myodes caurinus (Bailey 1898); Myodes fuscodorsalis (J. A. Allen 1894); Myodes galei (Merriam 1890); Myodes gaspeanus (Anderson 1943); Myodes gauti (Cockrum and Fitch 1952); Myodes hudsonius (Anderson 1940); Myodes idahoensis (Merriam 1891); Myodes limitis (Bailey 1913); Myodes loringi (Bailey 1897); Myodes maurus (Kellogg 1939); Myodes nivarius (Bailey 1897); Myodes occidentalis (Merriam 1890); Myodes ochraceus (Miller 1894); Myodes pallescens (Hall and Cockrum 1940); Myodes paludicola (Doutt 1941); Myodes phaeus (Swarth 1911); Myodes proteus (Bangs 1897); Myodes pygmaeus (Rhoads 1894); Myodes rhoadsii (Stone 1893); Myodes rufescens (Smith 1940); Myodes rupicola (Poole 1949); Myodes saturatus (Rhoads 1894); Myodes soleus (Hall and Cockrum 1952); Myodes stikinensis (Hall and Cockrum 1952); Myodes uintaensis (Doutt 1941); Myodes ungava (Bailey 1897); Myodes wrangeli (Bailey 1897). Distribution: Most of Canada from N British Columbia to Labrador, excluding Newfoundland; south in the Appalachians to N Georgia and NW South Carolina (Laerm et al., 1995), in the Great Plains to N Iowa, and in the Rockies to C New Mexico and EC Arizona, USA; extralimital isolates in NW and E Pennsylvania and S New Jersey. Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient as M. g. solus (sic), Lower Risk (nt) as C. g. maurus , otherwise Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Close relationship to, but genetic segregation from, M. rutilus supported by allozymic data (Mezhzherin and Serbenyuk, 1992; Nadler et al., 1978), although some had earlier suggested, without presentation of data, that gapperi and rutilus are conspecific (Bee and Hall, 1956; Youngman, 1975). In laboratory crosses ...