Microtus Irani Thomas, 1921

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 : 493

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scientific name	Microtus Irani Thomas, 1921
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Microtus Irani Thomas, 1921 . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 27:581.

REVIEWED BY: G. Storch (GS).

TYPE LOCALITY: Iran, Fars Prov., Shiraz, Bagh-i-Rezi (=Bagh-e-Razi) .

DISTRIBUTION: E. Turkey; N. Syria; Lebanon; Israel; W. Jordan; Cyrenaica in Libya; N. Iraq; W. and N. Iran; Turkmenia ( U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Sumeriomys of Argyropulo, 1933, Z. Saugetierk., 8:180-182 (in part Suranomys of Chaline, 1974); see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:283; includes mustersi; not a subspecies of socialis as treated by Corbet, 1978:112; see Kock et al., 1972, Z. Saugetierk., 37:204-229; and Morlok, 1978, Senckenberg. BioL, 59:155-162; includes paradoxus (OLR, GS); see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:283.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Arvicolidae
Genus	Microtus