Microtus gregalis (Pallas, 1779)

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Microtus gregalis (Pallas, 1779) . Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 238.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, E of Chulym River .

DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic tundra of Siberia from White Sea to far northeast, and wooded steppe from S Urals east to Amur and NE China (Heilongjiang), south to Aral Sea, Pamirs, Tien Shan and Altai Mtns, N Mongolia, and NW China (Xinjiang) (see Corbet, 1978c; Rausch, 1964).

SYNONYMS: angustus , brevicauda , buturlini , castaneus , dolguschini, dukelskiae, eversmanni , kossogolicus , major , montosus, nordenskioldi , pallasii , raddei , ravidulus , sirtalaensis, slowzovi, talassicus, tarbagataicus, tianschanicus , tundrae, unguiculatus , zachvatkini.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Stenocranius . The only Asian species in the subgenus ( Zagorodnyuk, 1990). Intraspecific variation in chromosomal traits among Mongolian samples documented by Kovalskaya (1989) and earlier chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a). Based on morphological and zoogeographic criteria, Rausch (1964) considered the North American miurus to be conspecific with Asian gregalis , a connection refuted by Fedyk (1970) with chromosomal data and by Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1986). Zagorodnyuk (1990) emphasized the karyotypic divergence between gregalis and miurus by listing the latter in the M. middendorffi species group along with M. mongolicus and M. sachalinensis , subgenus Alexandromys .

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Fedyk, S. 1970. Chromosomes of Microtus (Stenocranius) gregalis major (Ognev, 1923) and phylogenetic connections between sub-arctic representatives of the genus Microtus Schrank, 1798. Acta Theriologica, 15: 143 - 152.

Kovalskaya, Yu. M. 1989. [Karyotype variability of narrow-skulled vole, Microtus (Stenocranius) gregalis (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from northern Mongolia.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 68: 77 - 84 (in Russian).

Rausch, R. L. 1964. The specific status of the narrow-skulled vole (subgenus Stenocranius Kashchenko) in North America. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 29: 343 - 358.

Vorontsov, N. N., and E. A. Lyapunova. 1986. Genetics and problems of Trans-Beringian connections of Holarctic mammals. Pp. 441 - 481, in Beringia in the Cenozoic Era (V. L. Kontrimavichus, ed.) [translation of Beringiya v Kainozoe, 1976]. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 724 pp.

Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian).

Zima, J., and B. Kral. 1984 a. Karyotypes of European mammals. II. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Academiae Scientarium Bohemoslovacae (Brno), 18 (8): 1 - 62.