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--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS See comments.
SPECIES Microtus (See comments.) californicus
| Author: | Peale, 1848. | | Citation: | Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8: 46. | | Common Name: | California Vole | | Type Locality: | USA, California, Santa Clara Co., vicinity of San Francisco Bay, San Francisquito Creek near Palo Alto (as fixed by Kellogg, 1918:5). | | Distribution: | Oak woodlands and grasslands of Pacific coast, from SW Oregon through California, USA, to N Baja California Norte, México. | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable as M. c. mohavensis and M. c. scirpensis, Data Deficient as M. c. stephensi, Lower Risk (nt) as M. c. vallicola, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Broadly affiliated with other North American Microtus, but evidence for nearest specific relative contradictory (compare assessments of Anderson, 1959; Conroy and Cook, 2000a; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Moore and Janecek, 1990). Zagorodnyuk (1990) acknowledged enigmatic phyletic stature as sole member of californicus species group, subgenus Mynomes. Geographic races delineated by Kellogg (1918); Gill (1980) recorded instances of sterility in hybrids between M. c. californicus and M. c. stephensi. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
aequivocatus Osgood, 1928
aestuarinus Kellogg, 1918
constrictus Bailey, 1900
edax (Le Conte, 1853)
eximius Kellogg, 1918
grinnelli Huey, 1931
halophilus Von Bloeker, 1937
hyperuthrus Elliot, 1903
kernensis Kellogg, 1918
mariposae Kellogg, 1918
mohavensis Kellogg, 1918
neglectus Kellogg, 1918
paludicola Hatfield, 1935
perplexabilis Grinnell, 1926
sanctidiegi Kellogg, 1918
sanpabloensis Thaeler, 1961
scirpensis Bailey, 1900
stephensi Von Bloeker, 1932
trowbridgii (Baird, 1857)
vallicola Bailey, 1898
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