Microtus Schrank, 1798

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 : 489

Microtus Schrank, 1798 . Fauna Boica, 1 (1):72.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA)(Eurasia); S. R. Leffler (SRL).

COMMENT: Includes, as subgenera or as synonyms, Agricola, Alexandromys, Arvalomys , Aulacomys, Campicola , Chilotus, Chionomys, Euarvicola, Iberomys , Lasiopodomys, Lemmimicrotus, Mynomes, Orthriomys, Stenocranius, Sumeriomys, Suranomys, and Sylvicola ; see Chaline, 1974:448, Corbet, 1978:110, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, Walker et al., 1975, 2: 845, Van den Brink, 1957, Die Saugetiere Europas, and Anderson, 1959, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:415-511. There is no consensus concerning limits or validity of many of these taxa. May include Proedromys (here considered a distinct genus following Wang et al., 1966, Acta Zootax. Sin., 3: 85-91; see Chaline, 1974:448, and Corbet, 1978:110), Pedomys (here included in Pitymys; see Van der Meulen, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47:101-145, and comments under Pitymys ochrogaster), and Herpetomys (here included in Pitymys following Martin, R. A., 1974, in Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, p. 60, and Repenning, pers. comm, to RSH; see Anderson, 1960). Opinion also differs as to whether Arvicola and Pitymys should be retained as distinct genera as is done here (following Chaline and Mein, 1979) or considered subgenera of Microtus, as in Hall, 1981 (SRL, WDS). Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:322, 327, considered Chionomys and Lasiopodomys as distinct genera; but also see Hall, 1981:790.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080000000.