Clethrionomys rufocanus

• Main Authors: Guy G. Musser, Michael D. Carleton
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Clethrionomys; Clethrionomys rufocanus; Morrison; Kamchatka; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7282751; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7282751

Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846). Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3:122. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Lappmark. DISTRIBUTION: N Palearctic from Scandinavia through Siberia to Kamchatka, Russia, south to S Ural Mtns, the Altai Mtns, Mongolia, Transbaikal, N China (Xinjiang and Heilongjiang), Korea, and N Japan (Hokkaido and Rishiri Isis) (see Aimi, 1980; Corbet, 1978c; Henttonen and Viitala, 1982; Kaneko, 1992; and Ma et al., 1987). SYNONYMS: akkeshii, arsenjevi, bargusinensis, bedfordiae, bromleyi, irkutensis, kamtschaticus, kolymensis, kurilensis, latastei, montanus, rex, siberica, wosnessenskii, yesomontanus. COMMENTS: European populations reviewed by Henttonen and Viitala (1982). Morphological discrimination of C. rufocanus and Eothenomys regulus and their geographic distributions in the former USSR, NE China, and Korea assessed by Kaneko (1990). Variation in morphology of upper third molar in context of systematic, age, and seasonal significance was reported by Abe (1982). Chromosomal data suggest the need to re-evaluate the specific status of montanus and bedfordiae (see Kashiwabara and Onoyama, 1988). Allocation of synonyms follows Aimi (1980), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 509, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098