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

description: <i>Microtus arvalis</i> (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 78. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany; neotype from Leningrad Oblast. DISTRIBUTION: From C and N Spain throughout Europe (including Denmark) to western margin of Black Sea in the south and northeast to Kirov region (west of the Urals) in Russia; also populations on the Orkney Islands, Guernsey (Channel Islands), and Yeu (France) (see Niethammer and Krapp, 1982b, and Zagorodnyuk, 1991a). SYNONYMS: <i>albus, arvensis, angularis, assimilis, asturianus, brauneri, calypsus, caucasicus, cimbricus, contigua, cunicularius, depressa, duplicatus, flava, fulva, galliardi, grandis, heptneri, howelkae, igmanensis, incertus, incognitus, levis, meldensis, meridianus, orcadensis, oyaensis, principalis, ronaldshaiensis, rousiensis, rufescentefuscus, ruthenus, sandayensis, sarnius, simplex, terrestris</i> (of Schrank, 1798, not Linnaeus, 1758), <i>variabilis, vulgaris, westrae.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Microtus, arvalis</i> species group <i>sensu</i> Zagorodnyuk (1990). Taxonomy and distribution generally reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and European populations by Niethammer and Krapp (1982). Morphological variation among samples from NE Spain was documented by Gosalbez and Sans-Coma (1977). Chromosomal data and comparisons with other species summarized by Zima and Krâl (1984a) and Burgos et al. (1989). Some of the synonyms listed and much of the southern and eastern distribution outlined for <i>M. arvalis</i> by Corbet (1978c) actually refer to either <i>M. obscurus</i> or <i>M. rossiaemeridionalis</i> (see those accounts).
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 pages 518-519, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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