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

description: <i>Microtus ochrogaster</i> (Wagner, 1842). <i>In</i> Schreber, Die Säugethiere, Suppl. 3:592. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Indiana, Posey Co., New Harmony (as fixed by Bole and Moulthrop, 1942:157). DISTRIBUTION: Northern and Central Great Plains: EC Alberta to S Manitoba, Canada, south to N Oklahoma and Arkansas, eastwards to C Tennessee and westernmost West Virginia, USA; relictual populations in C Colorado, N New Mexico, and coastal prairies of SW Louisiana and adjacent Texas, USA. SYNONYMS: <i>austerus, cinnamonea, haydenii, ludovicianus, minor, ohioensis, similis, taylori.</i> COMMENTS: A member of <i>Pedomys,</i> a taxon used as a subgenus of <i>Microtus</i> (Bailey, 1900; van der Meulen, 1978), as a full synonym of <i>Microtus</i> (Hall, 1981), or as a synonym of <i>Pitymys,</i> whether the latter is used as a genus (Repenning, 1983) or subgenus (Hooper and Hart, 1962; Zagorodnyuk, 1990). The purported close affinity of <i>M. ochrogaster</i> with North American species of <i>Pitymys</i> has received little support from biochemical studies (Chaline and Graf, 1988; Moore and Janacek, 1990). Geographic variation over the Central Great Plains studied by Choate and Williams (1978). The strong morphometric segregation of <i>minor</i> from other <i>M. ochrogaster</i> advises renewed scrutiny of its status (Severinghaus, 1977). Includes <i>ludovicianus,</i> an isolated form of the coastal praires formerly consided a separate species and now apparently extinct (see Lowery, 1974). See Stalling (1990, Mammalian Species, 355).
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 526, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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