Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776)

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 : 496

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Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 3:693.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Omsk. Obi., Ishim Valley .

DISTRIBUTION: N. Palearctic, from Scandinavia and the Netherlands east to Chukotka ( U.S. S.R.); south to S.E. Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Szechwan, and Heilungkiang ( China) (SW), and Ussuri region; Kurile Islands and Sakhalin; St. Lawrence Isl. (Bering Sea); Alaska ( U.S.A.); Yukon and Northwest Territories ( Canada).

COMMENT: Subgenus Sumeriomys (= Suranomys Chaline, 1974 ), see Argyropulo, 1933, Z. Saugetierk., 8:180-182; or Microtus ; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:295, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:209. The taxon limnophilus, an isolate described from the Tsaidam, Tsinghai, China, is usually assigned to this species (see Corbet, 1978:115), but may be a distinct species; see Orlov et al., 1978, [Geogr. and Dynamics of Plants and Anim. in the Mongolian People's Republic], p. 149- 164; also see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:151, who included Sinkiang, Kansu, N.W. China, and W. Mongolia in the distribution of limnophilus, which they considered a distinct species. Includes ratticeps; see Corbet, 1978:115. Ognev, 1950, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R. and Adj. Count.], Vol. 7, Rodents, Engl. Trans., 1964:1 -626, and Ellerman, 1941, differed in the name used for this species; see Hall, 1981:805. Ognev's arguments for ratticeps are convincing, but would require nomenclatural reorganization in two subgenera. This problem might be best submitted to the ICZN for resolution (SRL).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080032001.

References

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.

Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.

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).

Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

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).

Orlov, V. N., and Yu. M. Kovalskaya. 1978. [Microtus mujanensis sp. n. from the Vitim River Basin.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57: 1224 - 1232 (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).