Microtus transcaspicus Satunin, 1905

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 : 498

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scientific name	Microtus transcaspicus Satunin, 1905
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Microtus transcaspicus Satunin, 1905 . Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 2:57 -60.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Turkmen S.S. R., Ashkhabadsk. Obi., Kopet-Dag Mts., Chuli Valley, near Ashkhabad .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkmenia, from Caspian Sea east to N. Afghanistan; south to N. Iran.

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus ; see Aksenova, 1978, Trudy Zool. Inst., Leningr., 79:91- 101. Meier, 1974, Trans. I Inti. Theriol. Congr., 1:400-401., provided evidence of specific distinctness, but see Ognev, 1950, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R. and Adj. Count.], Vol. 7, Rodents, Engl. Trans., 1964:1 -626, who considered this a subspecies of arvalis . Provisionally includes khorkoutensis; see Corbet, 1978:114; reviewed by Malygin, 1978, Zool. Zh„ 67(7): 1062-1073.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080044001.

References

Malygin, V. M. 1978. [A comparative-morphological analysis of species from the group Microtus arvalis (Rodentia, Cricetidae).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67: 1062 - 1073 (in Russian).

Ognev, S. I. 1950. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 7: 1 - 706 + 15 maps (in Russian).