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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS Pitymys
SPECIES Microtus (Pitymys) quasiater
| Author: | Coues, 1874. | | Citation: | Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 191. | | Common Name: | Jalapan Vole | | Type Locality: | México, Veracruz, Jalapa. | | Distribution: | Eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental, 500-2150 m, SE San Luis Potosi to N Oaxaca, México (Ramírez-Pulido et al., 1991:Fig. 1). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Pitymys. Named as a variety of M. pinetorum but specific status affirmed thereafter (Bailey, 1900; Hall and Cockrum, 1953; Repenning, 1983). Typically viewed as most closely related to pinetorum in subgenus or genus Pitymys (Anderson, 1960; Hall and Cockrum, 1953; van der Meulen, 1978), a convention challenged by Repenning (1983) and Moore and Janecek (1990), who supported sister-group kinship between ochrogaster and quasiater. Closest kinship with M. pinetorum, however, reaffirmed in phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome b sequences that included M. ochrogaster and 16 other species of North American Microtus (Conroy et al., 2001). Nongeographic variation, distribution, and natural history summarized by Ramírez-Pulido et al. (1991); nonbanded karyotype reported by Cervantes et al. (1994) and compared with other Mexican species. |
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