Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 491

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scientific name	Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897
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Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11:67.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Oregon, Polk Co., McCoy .

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to Willamette Valley, Oregon, and adjacent Washington ( U.S.A.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus ; closely related to montanus and formerly considered conspecific; Hsu and Johnson, 1970, J. Mammal., 51: 824-826, provided evidence of specific distinctness. See Maser and Storm, 1970, A Key to the Microtinae of the Pacific Northwest, O.S.U. Book Stores, Corvalis, Oregon, for status and distribution.

References

Hsu, T. C., and M. L. Johnson. 1970. Cytological distinction between Microtus montanus and Microtus canicaudus. Journal of Mammalogy, 51: 824 - 826.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Arvicolidae
Genus	Microtus

Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982

1982

Microtus canicaudus

Miller 1897: 67

1897

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