Myodes rutilus

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae; Myodes; Myodes rutilus; Kamchatka; ob river; Sakhalin; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571517; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A0BE3B64BBFF0EFF4FFE04FCC35325

Myodes rutilus (Pallas, 1778) —Northern Red-backed Vole Mus rutilus Pallas, 1778 p.246; Type locality- Center of Ob River delta, Siberia, Russia. Arvicola ( Hypudaeus ) amurensis Schrenck, 1858 p.129; Type locality- Mouth of Amur River, Siberia. Clethrionomys rutilus hintoni Vinogradov in Zolotarev, 1936 p.81; Type locality- Iman River, Ussuri, southeastern Siberia; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.375. C. amurensis amurensis : Kuroda, 1938 p.5. C. rutilus : Won, 1968 p.207; Corbet, 1978 p.98; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.25; Han, 2004c p.134. C . rutilus amurensis : Won, 1968 p.208; Yoon, 1992 p.74. Myodes rutilus : Musser & Carleton, 2005 p.1027. Range: Myodes rutilus occurs in the extreme northeastern region of the Korean Peninsula (Fig. 121). The southern limit of the range is in Chail Peak, Ryanggang-Province (Kim et al. 2015). Remarks: The northern red-backed vole in Korea has been regarded as M. r. hintoni or M. r. amurensis . Although hintoni is now considered a synonym of amurensis (Won 1968), a re-examination of the subspecific status for Korean populations of Myodes rutilus seems necessary due to considerable local variation such as shorter tail with long hairs on a floccus (Won 1968). In northeastern Asia, four lineages of M. rutilus (central Siberia, fareastern Siberia, Alaska-Kamchatka/Sakhalin and Hokkaido) were identified by using cytochrome b (Iwasa et al. 2002). Kohli et al. (2015) analyzed the same gene and confirmed similar lineages (western = central Siberia; central = far eastern Siberia; and eastern clade with 3 subgroups, Bering, Sakhalin, and Hokkaido), but nuclear gene analysis showed poor structuring among lineages. Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 178, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198