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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS Mynomes
SPECIES Microtus (Mynomes) canicaudus
| Author: | Miller, 1897. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11: 67. | | Common Name: | Gray-tailed Vole | | Type Locality: | USA, Oregon, Polk Co., Willamette Valley, McCoy. | | Distribution: | Willamette Valley, NW Oregon (Verts and Carraway, 1998:Fig. 11-111) and adjacent Washington, USA. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Mynomes. 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). Sibling species to M. montanus (Hoffmann and Koeppl, 1985; Modi, 1986, 1987; Zagorodnyuk, 1990) or to M. townsendii (Conroy and Cook, 2000a; Conroy et al., 2001). See Verts and Carraway (1987, Mammalian Species, 267). |
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