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--> SUBGENUS Mynomes
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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| Offspring: | 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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