Microtus rossiaemeridionalis Ognev 1924
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Microtus
Microtus rossiaemeridionalis

description: <i>Microtus rossiaemeridionalis</i> Ognev, 1924. Gryzuny Servernogo Kavkaza, Rostov-on-Don, [Rodentia N. Caucasus] p. 27. TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Bobrov subdistrict of Voronej Govt., Novii Kurlak (after Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:698). DISTRIBUTION: From Finland east through Russia to Urals, south to region just north of the Caucusus and through the Ukraine to Rumania, Bulgaria, S Yugoslavia, N Greece, and NW Turkey (see Petrov and Ruzic, 1982; Zagorodnyuk, <i>1991b;</i> Zima et al, 1991); introduced to Svalbard (see Fredga et al., 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>caspicus, epiroticus, ghalgai, mutilisi, relictus, rhodopensis, subarvalis.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Microtus, arvalis</i> species group. This is the species (with 2N=54, FN=56) that was listed as <i>M. subarvalis</i> or <i>epiroticus</i> by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and reviewed under the latter name by Petrov and Ruzic (1982). Cytological and morphological comparisons to <i>M. arvalis</i> and <i>M. obscurus</i> underscore the specific distinctness of <i>M. rossiaemeridionalis</i> (Gavrila et al., 1986; Krâl et al., 1981; Kratochvil, 1982b; Naumova et al., 1990; Zagorodnyuk, 1991a, b; Zima et al., 1991). The geographic ranges of A4, <i>arvalis</i> and A4, <i>rossiaemeridionalis</i> broadly overlap (see Zagorodnyuk, 1991b:30). The record (as <i>epiroticus)</i> from Svalbard is documented by Fredga et al. (1990), who suggested that the voles were introduced.
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 529, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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