Microtus miurus Osgood 1901

Microtus miurus Osgood, 1901. N. Am. Fauna, 21:64. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, head of Bear Creek in mtns near Hope City. DISTRIBUTION: Wet tundra and streambanks of N Alaska, N Yukon, and westernmost Northwest Territories; allopatric segment in SE Alaska and SW Yukon. SYN...

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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 miurus
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Tundra
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7282939
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7282939
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Summary:Microtus miurus Osgood, 1901. N. Am. Fauna, 21:64. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, head of Bear Creek in mtns near Hope City. DISTRIBUTION: Wet tundra and streambanks of N Alaska, N Yukon, and westernmost Northwest Territories; allopatric segment in SE Alaska and SW Yukon. SYNONYMS: andersoni, cantator, muriei, oreas, paneaki. COMMENTS: Classically treated as a member of the subgenus Stenocranius, related to Old World M. gregalis and synonymized with same by Rausch (1964) and Rausch and Rausch (1968). Other data clearly support their specific distinctiveness (see Anderson, 1960; Fedyk, 1970; Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1986). Zagorodnyuk (1990) further emphasized the distant kinship of M. gregalis and M. miurus by placing them in different subgenera, allying miurus with certain Old World species of the subgenus Alexandromys. 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 525, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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