Pitymys leucurus (Blyth, 1863)

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 : 501

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scientific name	Pitymys leucurus (Blyth, 1863)
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Pitymys leucurus (Blyth, 1863) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 32:89.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Ladak, near Lake Chomoriri (=Tsomoriri) .

DISTRIBUTION: Tsinghai, Sinkiang, and Tibet ( China) (SW), and the Himalayas west to Kashmir.

COMMENT: Subgenus Phaiomys ; see Chaline, 1974; or subgenus Neodon ; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:252. Corbet, 1978:107, included strauchi, which Van der Meulen, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47:101- 145, listed as a distinct species. If Pitymys were considered a subgenus of Microtus, leucurus would be preoccupied by leucurus Gerbe, 1852, now included in M. nivalis; M. leucurus Blyth would then be called M. blythi (Blanford, 1875) (WDS). Martin, R. A., 1974, in Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, p. 60, considered Phaiomys a distinct genus. Includes fuscus, considered a separate species of Microtus (Lasiopodomys) by Zheng and Wang, 1980, Acta Zootax. Sin., 5(l):106— 111; but also see Corbet, 1978:107.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080020001 as Microtus leucurus .

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.

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).

van der Meulen, A. J. 1978. Microtus and Pitymys (Arvicolidae) from Cumberland Cave, Maryland, with a comparison of some New and Old World species. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 47: 101 - 145.

Zheng Chang-lin and Wang Sung. 1980. [On the taxonomic status of Pitymys leucurus Blyth.] Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 5: 106 - 112 (in Chinese).