Clethrionomys rufocanus

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Arvicolidae; Clethrionomys; Clethrionomys rufocanus; Chukotka; Kamchatka; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203836; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF6D11FFA304236E96F94AC37BF65F

Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846). Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3:122. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA). TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Lappmark. DISTRIBUTION: N. Palearctic from Scandinavia to Chukotka and to Mongolia, Transbaikalia, N.E. China; Korea; Kamchatka, Sakhalin (U.S. S.R.), Hokkaido and Rishiri Isl. (Japan). COMMENT: Includes bedfordiae; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:147, and Corbet, 1978:99, but also see Imaizumi, 1972, Mem. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, 5: 131 -139. Includes montanus and rex; see Aimi, 1980, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ. Ser. BioL, 8:35-84. Corbet, 1978:99, tentatively included montanus in rex, which he listed as a species; Imaizumi, 1972, Mem. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, 5: 131-139, regarded both as distinct species; he believed them to be close to rufocanus, which also occurs on Hokkaido (as C. r. bedfordiae) and possibly Rishiri (as sikotanensis); also see Imaizumi, 1971, J. Mamm. Soc. Jpn., 5: 99-103. Revision of this species is needed for the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese forms; more than one species may be present (MLJ). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072004001. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 481, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034