Microtus Schrank 1798
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus

description: <i>Microtus</i> Schrank, 1798. Fauna Boica, 1 (1):72. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA)(Eurasia); S. R. Leffler (SRL). COMMENT: Includes, as subgenera or as synonyms, <i>Agricola, Alexandromys, Arvalomys, Aulacomys, Campicola, Chilotus,</i> <i>Chionomys, Euarvicola, Iberomys, Lasiopodomys,</i> <i>Lemmimicrotus, Mynomes, Orthriomys, Stenocranius, Sumeriomys, Suranomys,</i> and <i>Sylvicola;</i> see Chaline, 1974:448, Corbet, 1978:110, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, Walker <i>et al.,</i> 1975, 2: 845, Van den Brink, 1957, Die Saugetiere Europas, and Anderson, 1959, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:415-511. There is no consensus concerning limits or validity of many of these taxa. May include <i>Proedromys</i> (here considered a distinct genus following Wang <i>et al.,</i> 1966, Acta Zootax. Sin., 3: 85-91; see Chaline, 1974:448, and Corbet, 1978:110), <i>Pedomys</i> (here included in <i>Pitymys;</i> see Van der Meulen, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47:101-145, and comments under <i>Pitymys ochrogaster),</i> and <i>Herpetomys</i> (here included in <i>Pitymys</i> following Martin, R. A., 1974, <i>in</i> Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, p. 60, and Repenning, pers. comm, to RSH; see Anderson, 1960). Opinion also differs as to whether <i>Arvicola</i> and <i>Pitymys</i> should be retained as distinct genera as is done here (following Chaline and Mein, 1979) or considered subgenera of <i>Microtus,</i> as in Hall, 1981 (SRL, WDS). Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:322, 327, considered <i>Chionomys</i> and <i>Lasiopodomys</i> as distinct genera; but also see Hall, 1981:790. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080000000.
description: Published as part of <i>James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman &amp; James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. &amp; The Association of Systematics Collections</i> on page 489, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
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