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--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS Mynomes
SPECIES Microtus (Mynomes) montanus
Author: | Peale, 1848. | Citation: | Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8: 44. | Common Name: | Montane Vole | Type Locality: | USA, California, Siskiyou Co., headwaters of Sacramento River, near Mt Shasta. | Distribution: | Cascade, Sierra Nevada, and Rocky Mountain ranges: SC British Columbia, Canada, south to EC California, S Utah, and NC New Mexico, USA; disjunct populations in S Nevada, EC Arizona, and WC New Mexico (Frey et al., 1995). | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient as M. m. codiensis and M. m. zygomaticus, Vulnerable as M. m. fucosus and M. m. nevadensis, Lower Risk (nt) as M. m. arizonensis and M. m. rivularis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Mynomes, montanus species group (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Geographic variation and subspecific classification assessed by Anderson (1959), who viewed M. oeconomus as its sister species. Hooper and Hart (1962) arranged M. montanus with M. pennsylvanicus and M. townsendii, a general relationship corroborated by karyotypic and genic analyses (Modi, 1987; Moore and Janecek, 1990). Two karyotypic morphs reported by Judd et al. (1980), who raised the question of their specific distinction. See Sera and Early (2003, Mammalian Species, 716). |
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amosus Hall and Hayward, 1941 arizonensis Bailey, 1898 canescens Bailey, 1898 caryi Bailey, 1917 codiensis S. Anderson, 1954 dutcheri Bailey, 1898 fucosus Hall, 1935 fusus Hall, 1938 longirostris (Baird, 1857) micropus Hall, 1935 nanus (Merriam, 1891) nevadensis Bailey, 1898 nexus Hall and Hayward, 1941 pratincolus Hall and Kelson, 1951 rivularis Bailey, 1898 undosus Hall, 1935 yosemite Grinnell, 1914 zygomaticus S. Anderson, 1954
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