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

description: <i>Microtus longicaudus</i> (Merriam, 1888). Am. Nat., 22:934. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, South Dakota, Custer Co., Black Hills, Custer, 5500 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Rocky Mountains and adjacent foothills, from E Alaska and N Yukon, south through British Columbia and SW Alberta, Canada, to E California and W Colorado; including Pacific coastal taiga to N California; disjunct southern pockets in S California, Arizona, and New Mexico, USA. SYNONYMS: <i>abditus, alticola, angusticeps, angustus, baileyi, bernardinus, cautus, coronarius, halli, incanus, latus, leucophaeus, littoralis, macrurus, mordax, sierrae, vellerosus.</i> COMMENTS: Sometimes viewed as a Nearctic member of <i>Chionomys</i> (Anderson, 1959), or allocated to subgenus <i>Microtus</i> (Chaline, 1974; Hall, 1981), or to subgenus <i>Aulacomys</i> (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Although strongly differentiated relative to other North American <i>Microtus</i> (e.g., Hooper and Hart, 1962; Modi, 1987; Moore and Janecek, 1990), the phyletic affinity of <i>M. longicaudus</i> lies with this complex and not Old World <i>Chionomys</i> (Chaline and Graf, 1988; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Zagorodnyuk, 1990). The extensive karyotypic variation reported (Judd and Cross, 1980) suggests the need for taxonomic revision. Jones et al. (1986) viewed <i>coronarius</i> as an insular derivative and subspecies of <i>M. longicaudus.</i> See Smolen and Keller (1987, Mammalian Species, 271).
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 523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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