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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Alticola
--> SUBGENUS Alticola
SPECIES Alticola (Alticola) argentatus
| Author: | Severtzov, 1879. | | Citation: | Izv. Soc. Nat. Anthrop. Etnogr., 8(2): 82. | | Common Name: | Silver Mountain Vole | | Type Locality: | Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains, Murgab District, Alichur. | | Distribution: | Tien Shan mountains from Xinjiang in NW China (Ma et al., 1987); southwest through mountains of E Kazakhstan (Dzhungarskiy Alatau and other highlands) and Kyrgyzstan (Talasskiy Alatau and other local ranges); to Pamir Mtns of S Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, NW India (Agrawal, 2000, discussed under A. blanfordi), and the Hindu Kush of NW Pakistan and N Afghanistan; not present in Tibet or Himalayas. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Alticola, A. roylei-A. argentatus species group. Included under A. roylei by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c), but separated as a species by Rossolimo (1989) and Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992). Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992) speculated that A. argentatus descended from a Himalayan form morphologically similar to A. roylei, and in turn was the ancestor to northern A. tuvinicus. Trait-frequency data of m1s and M3s among 10 geographic samples documented by Tokmergenov (1992); M3 variation analyzed with geometric techniques by Pavlinov et al. (1994). See Rossolimo et al. (1994) for recognized subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
alaica Rosanov, 1935
argurus (Thomas, 1909)
blanfordi (Scully, 1880)
gracilis Kashkarov, 1923
lahulius Hinton, 1926
leucurus (Severtsov, 1873)
longicauda Kashkarov, 1923
longicaudata Ognev, 1950
parvidens Schlitter and Setzer, 1973
phasma Miller, 1912
rosanovi Ognev, 1940
saurica Afanasiev and Bazhanov, 1948
shnitnikovi Ognev, 1940
severtzovi (Tichomirov and Korchagin, 1889)
subluteus Thomas, 1914
tarasovi Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992
villosa Kashkarov, 1923
worthingtoni Miller, 1906
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