Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978

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 : 495

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scientific name	Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978
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Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978 . Zool. Zh., 57: 1224.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Buryat-Mongolsk. A.S.S. R., Bauntovsk. Obi., Miyha River at Miyha .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus ; (RSH from V. G. Orlov, pers. comm.); Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978, Zool. Zh., 57: 1224- 1232, described this species as morphologically close to maximowiczii , but the species are karyotypically different and Fl hybrids are sterile (SRL). Gromov and Baranova, 1981:209, indicated that the name is based on an earlier publication (Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 32); which may be a nomen nudum (RSH).

References

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