Arvicola Lacepede 1799
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Arvicola

description: <i>Arvicola</i> Lacepede, 1799. Tab. Div. Subd. Orders Genres Mammifères, p. 10. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus amphibius</i> Linnaeus, 1758 (= <i>Mus terrestris</i> Linnaeus, 1758). SYNONYMS: <i>Alviceola, Hemiotomys, Ochetomys, Paludicola, Praticola.</i> COMMENTS: Excludes the North American <i>Microtus richardsoni</i> (see account of that species), which was placed in <i>Arvicola</i> by Hooper and Hart (1962). Generic reviews were provided by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Gromov and Polyakov (1977), who recognized only two extant species, <i>A. sapidus</i> and <i>A. terrestris.</i> Earlier, Miller (1912a) defined seven species <i>(amphibius, illyricus, italicus, musignani, sapidus, scherman,</i> and <i>terrestris)</i> and Hinton (1926) recognized four <i>(amphibius, sapidus, scherman,</i> and <i>terrestris).</i> We follow Corbet's (1978c) unsatisfactory arrangement pending careful systematic revision of the genus, which will likely reflect a classification more similar to that of Hinton (1926). <i>Arvicola</i> is phylogenetically close to <i>Microtus</i> (Burgos et al., 1989; Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982). Heinrich (1990) hypothesized that it evolved from the extinct <i>Mimomys,</i> a view already presented by Hinton (1926), and Rekovets (1990) summarized the fossil history leading to the modern groups of <i>Arvicola.</i>
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 page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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