Microtus pennsylvanicus
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
Microtus pennsylvanicus

description: <i>Microtus pennsylvanicus</i> (Ord, 1815). <i>In</i> Guthrie, A new geogr., hist., comml., grammar... Philadelphia, 2nd Amer, ed., 2:292. REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP). TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Pennsylvania, "meadows below Philadelphia." DISTRIBUTION: North America from Newfoundland to W. Alaska, north into tundra zone, south to Georgia, N. Great Plains, S. Rocky Mtns. (U.S.A.), isolated population in N. Chihuahua (Mexico). COMMENT: Subgenus <i>Microtus;</i> see Anderson, 1960. Includes <i>chihuahuensis;</i> see Bradley and Cockrum, 1968, Am. Mus. Novit., 2325:3-7. Klimkiewicz, 1970, Mammalia, 34:640-665, suggested that <i>pennsylvanicus</i> is conspecific with <i>agrestis.</i> This species requires review over its entire range and comparison with related Old and New World species (SRL). Closely related insular forms, such as <i>breweri, provectus</i> (here included in <i>pennsylvanicus), nesophilus</i> and others may best be considered subspecies; see Chamberlain, 1954, J. Mammal., 35: 587, Fivush <i>et al.,</i> 1975, J. Mammal., 56:272, and Wheeler, 1956, Evolution, 10: 176- 186. Hall, 1981, considered <i>breweri</i> and <i>nesophilus</i> distinct species and <i>provectus</i> a subspecies of <i>pennsylvanicus,</i> whereas Anderson, 1959:496, afforded all full specific status, without elaborating; see comments under <i>breweri</i> and <i>nesophilus.</i> Reviewed by Reich, 1981, Mamm. Species, 159:1-8. See Anderson and Hubbard, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2460:1-8, for discussion of distribution. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080035001.
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 496, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
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