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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS See comments.
SPECIES Microtus (See comments.) guatemalensis
| Author: | Merriam, 1898. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 108. | | Common Name: | Guatemalan Vole | | Type Locality: | Guatemala, Huehuetenango Dept., Todos Santos, 10,000 ft (3048 m). | | Distribution: | Highland meadows of C Chiapas, México, and C Guatemala. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Type species of Herpetomys, usually placed in Microtus, with (Bailey, 1900) or without (Hall, 1981) subgeneric division; or placed in Pitymys when used as a genus (Honacki et al., 1982; R. A. Martin, 1974). Sister species to M. oaxacensis according to cladistic interpretation of molar characters (R. A. Martin, 1995) and cytochrome b sequence data (Conroy et al., 2001). The latter evidence indicates that Herpetomys should be considered a junior synonym of Pitymys, whether used as subgenus or genus. |
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