Microtus longicaudus (Merriam, 1888)

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 : 493

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scientific name	Microtus longicaudus (Merriam, 1888)
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Microtus longicaudus (Merriam, 1888) . Am. Nat., 22:934.

REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., South Dakota, Custer Co., Custer (Black Hills), 5500 ft. (1676 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Rocky Mtns., from N. Yukon and E. Alaska south to S. New Mexico and Arizona, and adjacent foothills and plains; east to W. South Dakota; west to N.W. Pacific Coast ( U.S.A.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Chionomys , as in Anderson, 1960; or Microtus (— Arvalomys ), as in Chaline, 1974, and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:317. This widespread species is in need of taxonomic revision (SRL). Revised in part by Long, 1965, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:493-758. Probably includes coronarius , an insular derivative (RSH, SRL).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080021001.

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).