Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii Poljakov 1881

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1006

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Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii Poljakov 1881
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Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii Poljakov 1881 View in CoL

Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii Poljakov 1881 View in CoL , Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 39: 70.

Type Locality: Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taimyr Peninsula.

Vernacular Names: Middendorf's Vole.

Synonyms: Microtus (Alexandromys) hyperboreus Vinogradov 1934 ; Microtus (Alexandromys) obscurus (Middendorf 1853) ; Microtus (Alexandromys) ryphaeus Heptner 1948 ; Microtus (Alexandromys) swerevi Scalon 1935 ; Microtus (Alexandromys) tasensis Skalon 1935 ; Microtus (Alexandromys) uralensis Skalon 1935 .

Distribution: N Siberia, from the Polar Ural Mtns east through the Yenisey River basin past the N Lena River region to the N Kolyma River area, south in Urals to 62ºN, and in the Lena Valley near Yakutsk (Meyer et al., 1996).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. middendorfii and M. hyperboreus .

Discussion: Subgenus Alexandromys ( Pavlinov et al., 1995 a; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1998). Also variously included in subgenus Pallasiinus ( Zagorodnyuk, 1990) or subgenus Microtus ( Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Meyer et al., 1996). Meyer (1983) considered M. middendorffii to be phylogenetically distant from other northern and central Asian species of Microtus , but close relationship to M. oeconomus broadly supported by analyses of allozymes ( Mezhzherin et al., 1993), karyology and morphology (Meyer et al., 1996), and DNA sequences ( Conroy and Cook, 2000 a). Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1976) considered M. middendorffii (and hyperboreus ) to be chromosomally closely related to North American M. miurus , but cytochrome b sequences group M. middendorffi with M. fortis and Palaearctic species, not M. miurus and North American endemics ( Conroy and Cook, 2000 a). Karyotype documented by Boyeskorov et al. (1993, as hyperboreus ).

The taxon hyperboreus has been widely treated as a separate species ( Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Meyer, 1983; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a). Corbet (1978 c) included hyperboreus in M. middendorffi based on Gileva’s (1972) demonstration of their complete interfertility. Meyer et al. (1996) comprehensively marshalled chromosomal, morphological, and hybridization data that sustain inclusion of hyperboreus as a subspecies in M. middendorffii , along with typical middendorffii and ryphaeus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Microtus

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Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii Poljakov 1881

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Microtus (Alexandromys) middendorffii

Poljakov 1881: 70
1881
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