Microtus miurus Osgood 1901

• 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; Northwest Territories; Tundra; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7282939; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFFEEFFA3FF010A31FDF1FCA6

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