Alticola Blanford 1881
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Alticola

description: <i>Alticola</i> Blanford, 1881. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 50:96. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Arvicola stoliczkanus</i> Blanford, 1875. SYNONYMS: <i>Aschizomys, Platycranius.</i> COMMENTS: Hinton's (1926) monograph remains one of the best overall reviews of the genus, as supplemented by the morphological studies of Rossolimo et al. (1988) and Rossolimo (1989) and the cytogenetic results of Hielscher et al. (1992). Schwarz (1939) also reviewed the Himalayan species. We follow Gromov and Polyakov (1977), along with Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), in recognizing the subgenera <i>Alticola,</i> <i>Aschizomys,</i> and <i>Platycranius.</i> DNA-DNA hybridization studies indicated that <i>Alticola macrotis</i> is a sister species of <i>Clethrionomys rufocanus</i> and that <i>A. argentatus</i> is phylogenetically closer to C. <i>rutilus</i> and C. <i>glareolus</i> than to <i>A. macrotis</i> (Gileva et al., 1989). <i>Alticola</i> is broadly related to <i>Clethrionomys,</i> an affinity Hooper and Hart (1962) acknowledged by placing <i>Alticola</i> with <i>Clethrionomys, Eothenomys, Hyperacrius,</i> <i>Dolomys,</i> and <i>Phenacomys</i> in the tribe Clethrionomyini, a division also recognized by Gromov and Polyakov (1977). Comparative study of appendicular myology and osteology reinforces the monophyly of <i>Alticola</i> and its close association with <i>Clethrionomys</i> and <i>Eothenomys</i> (Stein, 1987).
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 502, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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