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

description: <i>Microtus gregalis</i> (Pallas, 1779). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 238. TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, E of Chulym River. DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic tundra of Siberia from White Sea to far northeast, and wooded steppe from S Urals east to Amur and NE China (Heilongjiang), south to Aral Sea, Pamirs, Tien Shan and Altai Mtns, N Mongolia, and NW China (Xinjiang) (see Corbet, 1978c; Rausch, 1964). SYNONYMS: <i>angustus, brevicauda, buturlini, castaneus, dolguschini, dukelskiae, eversmanni, kossogolicus, major, montosus, nordenskioldi, pallasii, raddei, ravidulus, sirtalaensis, slowzovi, talassicus, tarbagataicus, tianschanicus, tundrae, unguiculatus, zachvatkini.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Stenocranius.</i> The only Asian species in the subgenus (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Intraspecific variation in chromosomal traits among Mongolian samples documented by Kovalskaya (1989) and earlier chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a). Based on morphological and zoogeographic criteria, Rausch (1964) considered the North American <i>miurus</i> to be conspecific with Asian <i>gregalis,</i> a connection refuted by Fedyk (1970) with chromosomal data and by Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1986). Zagorodnyuk (1990) emphasized the karyotypic divergence between <i>gregalis</i> and <i>miurus</i> by listing the latter in the <i>M. middendorffi</i> species group along with <i>M. mongolicus</i> and <i>M. sachalinensis,</i> subgenus <i>Alexandromys.</i>
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 521, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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