Microtus longicaudus

Microtus longicaudus (Merriam, 1888). Am. Nat., 22:934. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, South Dakota, Custer Co., Black Hills, Custer, 5500 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Rocky Mountains and adjacent foothills, from E Alaska and N Yukon, south through British Columbia and SW Alberta, Canada, to E California and W Colorado;...

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Bibliographic Details
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
Microtus
Microtus longicaudus
Yukon
Canada
Pacific
British Columbia
Keller
Judd
Black Hills
taiga
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7282925
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7282925
Description
Summary:Microtus longicaudus (Merriam, 1888). Am. Nat., 22:934. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, South Dakota, Custer Co., Black Hills, Custer, 5500 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Rocky Mountains and adjacent foothills, from E Alaska and N Yukon, south through British Columbia and SW Alberta, Canada, to E California and W Colorado; including Pacific coastal taiga to N California; disjunct southern pockets in S California, Arizona, and New Mexico, USA. SYNONYMS: abditus, alticola, angusticeps, angustus, baileyi, bernardinus, cautus, coronarius, halli, incanus, latus, leucophaeus, littoralis, macrurus, mordax, sierrae, vellerosus. COMMENTS: Sometimes viewed as a Nearctic member of Chionomys (Anderson, 1959), or allocated to subgenus Microtus (Chaline, 1974; Hall, 1981), or to subgenus Aulacomys (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Although strongly differentiated relative to other North American Microtus (e.g., Hooper and Hart, 1962; Modi, 1987; Moore and Janecek, 1990), the phyletic affinity of M. longicaudus lies with this complex and not Old World Chionomys (Chaline and Graf, 1988; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Zagorodnyuk, 1990). The extensive karyotypic variation reported (Judd and Cross, 1980) suggests the need for taxonomic revision. Jones et al. (1986) viewed coronarius as an insular derivative and subspecies of M. longicaudus. See Smolen and Keller (1987, Mammalian Species, 271). 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 523, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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