Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 520

Microtus canicaudus Miller, 1897 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 11:67.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Oregon, Polk Co., Willamette Valley, McCoy .

DISTRIBUTION: Willamette Valley of NW Oregon and adjacent Washington, USA.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mynomes , montanus species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Reduced to a subspecies of M. montanus by Hall and Kelson (1951); resurrected to specific status based on karyotypic and electrophoretic evidence ( Hsu and Johnson, 1970; Johnson, 1968; Modi, 1986). Viewed as sibling species to M. montanus (see Hoffmann and Koeppl, 1985; Modi, 1986, 1987). See Verts and Carraway (1987, Mammalian Species, 267).