Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761)

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 : 490

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353034
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203952
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF6D11-FFAA-042A-6F37-FE39C3D4FC69
treatment provided by	GgServerImporter (2022-10-15 00:13:13, last updated 2024-11-29 14:53:28)
scientific name	Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761)
status

Treatment

Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) . Fauna Suec., 11(2):11.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala .

DISTRIBUTION: Britain, Scandinavia, and France east through Europe and Siberia to Lena River; south to Pyrennes, N. Portugal, N. Yugoslavia, Altai Mtns., Sinkiang ( China) (SW), and Lake Baikal.

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus ; see Anderson, 1959, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:496 ( Arvalomys of Chaline, 1974:440-450). Sometimes regarded as conspecific with pennsylvanicus , as by Klimkiewicz, 1970, Mammalia, 34:641-665, but not closely related; see Frank, 1959, Z. Saugetierk., 24:91-93, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1976, in Kontrimavichus, ed., [Beringia in Cenozoic], Acad. Sci. Vladivostok.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080001001.

References

Anderson, S. 1959. Distribution, variation, and relationships of the montane vole, Microtus montanus. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 9: 415 - 511.

Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.

Klimkiewicz, M. K. 1970. The taxonomic status of the nominal species Microtus pennsylvanicus and Microtus agrestis (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mammalia, 34: 640 - 655.

Vorontsov, N. N., and L. Ya Martynova. 1976. Population cytogenetics of Altai zokor Myospalax myospalax Laxm. (Rodentia, myospalacinae). Doklady Biological Sciences, 230 (1 - 6): 401 - 404 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 230 (2): 447 - 449).