Chionomys Miller 1908
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Chionomys

description: <i>Chionomys</i> Miller, 1908. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 1:97. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Arvicola nivalis</i> Martins, 1842. COMMENTS: Tribe Arvicolini. Although described as a genus, Miller (1912a) later employed <i>Chionomys</i> as a subgenus, a status which became entrenched in the literature (Corbet, 1978c, Krapp, 1982a) with rare dissenters (e.g., Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Lehmann, 1969). Recent analyses reveal that <i>Chionomys</i> is not part of the monophyletic group containing <i>Microtus</i> (Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982; Nadachowski, 1990«; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Van der Meulen (1978) considered <i>Suranontys</i> to be a junior synonym of <i>Chionontys,</i> but the type species of <i>Suranontys (=</i> <i>Microtus malei)</i> is regarded as a <i>Microtus</i> related to the <i>oeconomus</i> group, not to <i>Chionontys</i> (see Nadachowski, 1990«). New World <i>Microtus longicaudus</i> was referred to <i>Chionontys</i> by Anderson (1960), but a variety of data sources allies the former with <i>Microtus proper</i> (Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982). Discussing the origin and phylogeny of <i>Chionontys,</i> Nadachowski (1990«, 1991) suggested that two branches developed in Europe, one leading to C. <i>nivalis,</i> the other to C. <i>roberti</i> and C. <i>gud.</i> All three species are sympatric in the Caucasus (Nadachowski, 1990«). Karyotypic variation among the three species is reported by Sablina (1988) and Zima and Krâl (1984a).
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 506, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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