Myodes californicus Merriam 1890

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1022

Myodes californicus Merriam 1890

Myodes californicus Merriam 1890 , N. Amer. Fauna, 4: 26.

Type Locality: USA, California, Humboldt Co., Eureka.

Vernacular Names: Western Red-backed Vole.

Synonyms: Myodes obscurus ( Merriam 1897) .

Distribution: Coastal coniferous forest from the Columbia River south through W Oregon ( Verts and Carraway, 1998:Fig. 11-97) to NW California, USA.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Clethrionomys californicus .

Discussion: The name occidentalis was formerly applied to this species (e.g., Hall and Cockrum, 1953), but populations north of the Columbia River, which include occidentalis and caurinus , have been reassigned to M. gapperi ( Cowan and Guiguet, 1965; Johnson and Ostenson, 1959). See Alexander and Verts, 1992 (Mammalian Species, 406).