HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS Terricola
SPECIES Microtus (Terricola) multiplex
Author: | Fatio, 1905. | Citation: | Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Geneve, Ser. 4, 19: 193. | Common Name: | Alpine Pine Vole | Type Locality: | Switzerland, Ticino Canton, near Lugano. | Distribution: | Western and Central Alps in E France, Switzerland (Maurizio, 1994; Hausser, 1995), far W Austria, and N Italy, including N Italian Apennines (Amori et al., 1999; Cantini, 1991; Paolucci et al., 1994). The Adige River Valley (Trentino region) in the Alps of NE Italy is apparently the boundary between ranges of M. multiplex (to the west) and M. liechtensteini (eastward); see Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev (1994), Haring et al. (2000), and Spitzenberger et al. (2000). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Terricola, subterraneus species group (Chaline et al., 1988; Pavlinov et al., 1995a) or multiplex species group (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Most closely related to M. bavaricus and M. liechtensteini (see latter account for discussion of relationships). Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev (1994) and Brunet-Lecomte (1995) identified populations from the W French Alps and Rhone Valley, at the western margin of the geographic range, as the subspecies niethammeri based on m1 morphology and chromosomes. The taxon vuillemeyi was described as a fossil subspecies from the Pleistocene of E France (Brunet-Lecomte et al., 1993). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
druentius (Miller, 1911) fatioi (Mottaz, 1909) leponticus Thomas, 1906 niethammeri Brunet-Lecomte and Volobouev, 1994 orientalis Dal Piaz, 1924 vuillemeyi Brunet-Lecomte, Chaline, and Campy, 1993
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