Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815)

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 : 531

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scientific name	Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815)
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Microtus xanthognathus (Leach, 1815) . Zool. Mise., 1:60.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Manitoba, Hudson Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: Western boreal taiga zone: EC Alaska to W Northwest Territories, southeastwards to C Alberta and western coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.

COMMENTS: Relationships obscure: probably not a sister species to M. chrotorrhinus as once believed (see that account and Lidicker and Yang, 1986); placed by Zagorodnyuk (1990) in the subgenus Aulacomys , richardsoni species group. Karyotype reported and affinities discussed by Rausch and Rausch (1974).