Myodes rufocanus Sundevall 1846

• 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 rufocanus; Kamchatka; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11357041; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A3303883DEECAB6E26FDE205D2466EDF

Myodes rufocanus Sundevall 1846 Myodes rufocanus Sundevall 1846, Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, Vol. 3: 122. Type Locality: Sweden, Lappmark. Vernacular Names: Gray Red-backed Vole. Synonyms: Myodes akkeshii (Imaizumi 1949); Myodes arsenjevi (Dukelsky 1928); Myodes bargusinensis (Turov 1924); Myodes bedfordiae (Thomas 1905); Myodes changbaishanensis (Jang, Ma, and Luo 1993); Myodes irkutensis (Ognev 1924); Myodes kamtnschaticus (Poliakov 1881); Myodes kolymensis (Ognev 1922); Myodes kurilensis (Tokuda 1932); Myodes latastei (J. A. Allen 1903); Myodes microtinus (Kuzyakin 1963); Myodes siberica (Poliakov 1881); Myodes sikotanensis (Tokuda 1935); Myodes wosnessenskii (Poliakov 1881); Myodes yesomontanus (Kishida 1931). Distribution: N Palearctic from Scandinavia through Siberia to Kamchatka (Nikanorov, 2000), Sakhalin, and Taraku (south of Shikotan Isl in the S Kuril Isls) in Russia, south to S Ural Mtns, the Altai Mtns, Transbaikal, N China (NW Xinjiang in the west, and Nei Mongol, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang in the NE), N portion of Korean peninsula, N Japan (Hokkaido and the offshore islets of Rishiri, Daikoku, Teuri, and Yagishiri), and the S Kurile Isls of Kunashiri, Shikotan, Shibotsu and others. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Chromosomal and molecular evidence relates M. rufocanus most closely to Korean M. regulus and Japanese M. rex , M. andersoni , M. smithii , and M. imaizumii (Iwasa et al., 1999 a Suzuki et al., 1999 b Wakana et al., 1996); it is also morphologically similar to the Chinese M. shanseius (see that account). Allozymic (Mezhzherin and Serbenyuk, 1992) and chromosomal data (Sokolov et al., 1990) reveal M. rufocanus as highly differentiated from other Myodes sampled ( M. centralis , M. glareolus , M. gapperi , M. rutilus ). DNA/DNA hybridization and homologous landmark analyses also distantly isolate M. rufocanus from M. glareolus and New World M. rutilus and M. gapperi (Din et al., 1993). Myodes rufocanus and M. rex have rooted molars (in ...