Microtus roberti Thomas, 1906

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 : 497

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scientific name	Microtus roberti Thomas, 1906
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Microtus roberti Thomas, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:418.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Pontus Prov., Sumila, 30 mi. (48 km) S. of Trebizond (= Trabzon) .

DISTRIBUTION: Caucasus Mtns. ( U.S. S.R. and N.E. Turkey).

COMMENT: Subgenus Chionontys; see Anderson, 1960:202; related to gud and nivalis (RSH) . Chaline, 1974, included Chionomys within the subgenus Suranomys , but Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:327, regarded Chionomys as a full genus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080038001.

References

Anderson, S. 1960. The baculum in microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 12: 181 - 216.

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.

Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).