Clethrionomys Tilesius 1850
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Clethrionomys

description: <i>Clethrionomys</i> Tilesius, 1850. Isis, 2:28. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus rutilus</i> Pallas, 1779. SYNONYMS: <i>Craseomys, Glareontys, Eotomys, Euotomys, Evotontys, Neoaschizontys.</i> COMMENTS: Placed in tribe Clethrionomyini, usually with voles such as <i>Eothenomys, Alticola,</i> and <i>Hyperacrius</i> (Koenigswald, 1980; Kretzoi, 1969). <i>Clethrionontys</i> is perhaps most closely related to <i>Eothenomys,</i> if not congeneric with it as suggested by some authors (Corbet, 1978c, 1984; Hooper and Hart, 1962). Large segments of the genus were taxonomically reviewed by Aimi (1980), Corbet (1978c, 1984), and Gromov and Polyakov (1977); chromosomal data summarized and interspecific relationships discussed by Gamperl (1982), Modi and Gamperl (1989), Nadler et al. (1976); Sokolov et al. (1990), and Vorontsov et al. (1978); electrophoretic data presented by Nadler et al. (1978) and Chaline and Graf (1988). The relationship among European and Japanese species based on living and Pleistocene samples was monographed by Kawamura (1988). Species in this genus were commonly listed under <i>Evotomys</i> (e.g., Hinton, 1926) until Palmer (1928) established the priority of <i>Clethrionomys.</i> Recently, Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) have questioned whether <i>Myodes</i> is a senior synonym of <i>Clethrionomys</i> and Zagorodnyuk (1990) employed the former name. This issue warrants prompt settlement before the literature on red-backed voles is diffused under yet another generic name.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; 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</i> on pages 507-508, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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