Microtus townsendii (Bachman, 1839)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 530

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scientific name	Microtus townsendii (Bachman, 1839)
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Microtus townsendii (Bachman, 1839) . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8:60.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Oregon, Multnomah Co., Wappatoo (Sauvie) Island, lower Columbia River near mouth of Willamette River (as located by Bailey, 1900:46) .

DISTRIBUTION: Pacific northwest, from extreme SW British Columbia, Canada, to NW California, USA, including Vancouver and neighboring islands.

SYNONYMS: cowani, cummingi, laingi, occidentalis , pugeti, tetramerus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mynomes , pennsylvanicus species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Broadly allied with M. pennsylvanicus and M. nwntanus ( Anderson, 1959; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Modi, 1987), though precise cladistic picture unresolved. See Comely and Verts (1988, Mammalian Species, 325).