Microtus montebelli (Milne-Edwards, 1872)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 525

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Microtus montebelli (Milne-Edwards, 1872) . Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères, p. 285.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Honshu Island, Fusiyama .

DISTRIBUTION: Japanese islands of Honshu, Sado, and Kyushu; and Sikotan Island in the Kuriles ( Corbet, 1978c).

SYNONYMS: brevicorpus, hatanezumi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiinus , oeconomus species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Chromosomal data summarized by Tsuchiya (1981). Variation in molar patterns from Holocene and Pleistocene samples exhaustively summarized by Kawamura (1988) in context of defining Pleistocene species endemic to Japan.