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SPECIES Microtus (Mynomes) townsendii

Author:Bachman, 1839.
Citation:J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 60.
Common Name:Townsend’s Vole
Type Locality:USA, Oregon, Multnomah Co., Wappatoo (Sauvie) Isl, lower Columbia River near mouth of Willamette River (as located by Bailey, 1900:46).
Distribution:Wet meadows and marshes of Pacific Northwest, from extreme SW British Columbia, Canada, to NW California, USA, including Vancouver and neighboring islands.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (cd) as M. t. cowani, otherwise Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Subgenus Mynomes, pennsylvanicus species group (Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Broadly allied with M. pennsylvanicus and M. montanus (Anderson, 1959; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Modi, 1987); sister species to M. canicaudus according to phyletic reconstructions of cytochrome b sequences (Conroy and Cook, 2000a). See Cornely and Verts (1988, Mammalian Species, 325).
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Synonyms:

    cowani Guiguet, 1955
    cummingi Hall, 1936
    laingi Anderson and Rand, 1943
    occidentalis (Peale, 1848)
    pugeti Dalquest, 1940
    tetramerus (Rhoads, 1894)

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