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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Microtus
--> SUBGENUS Terricola
SPECIES Microtus (Terricola) thomasi
| Author: | Barrett-Hamilton, 1903. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11: 306. | | Common Name: | Thomas’s Pine Vole | | Type Locality: | Montenegro, Vranici. | | Distribution: | Endemic to SW Balkans, from the Neretva River in Herzegovina through Montenegro, Albania and mainland Greece to the Peloponessos (including Euboea Isl). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Subgenus Terricola, duodecimcostatus species group (Chaline et al., 1988; Pavlinov et al., 1995a) or sole member of thomasi species group (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Generally reviewed by Niethammer (1982k) and Petrov (1992); taxonomic history reviewed by Brunet-Lecomte and Nadachowski (1994). Karyotype is polymorphic, 2n = 40 to 44 and FN = 42 to 46 (Giagia-Athanasopoulou et al., 1995; Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999; Zima and Kral, 1984a). Based on morphometric analysis of m1s, M. thomasi is strongly divergent from six other species examined in subgenus Terricola (Brunet-Lecomte and Nadachowski, 1994), a finding that supports species-group isolation (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Synonymy of atticus confirmed by microcomplement fixation comparisons of albumin (Nikoletopoulos et al., 1992), m1 morphometry (Brunet-Lecomte and Nadachowski, 1994), and morphometric and allozymic variation (Tsekoura et al., 2002). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
atticus (Miller, 1910)
byroni (Bolkay, 1926)
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