Microtus xanthognathus

Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815). Zool. Mise., 1:60. TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Manitoba, Hudson Bay. DISTRIBUTION: Western boreal taiga zone: EC Alaska to W Northwest Territories, southeastwards to C Alberta and western coast of Hudson Bay, Canada. COMMENTS: Relationships obscure: probably not a si...

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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 xanthognathus
Northwest Territories
Hudson Bay
Canada
Hudson
taiga
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7282999
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7282999
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Summary:Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815). Zool. Mise., 1:60. TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Manitoba, Hudson Bay. DISTRIBUTION: Western boreal taiga zone: EC Alaska to W Northwest Territories, southeastwards to C Alberta and western coast of Hudson Bay, Canada. COMMENTS: Relationships obscure: probably not a sister species to M. chrotorrhinus as once believed (see that account and Lidicker and Yang, 1986); placed by Zagorodnyuk (1990) in the subgenus Aulacomys, richardsoni species group. Karyotype reported and affinities discussed by Rausch and Rausch (1974). 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 531, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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