Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 481

Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846) . Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3:122.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Lappmark .

DISTRIBUTION: N. Palearctic from Scandinavia to Chukotka and to Mongolia, Transbaikalia, N.E. China; Korea; Kamchatka, Sakhalin ( U.S. S.R.), Hokkaido and Rishiri Isl. ( Japan).

COMMENT: Includes bedfordiae; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:147, and Corbet, 1978:99, but also see Imaizumi, 1972, Mem. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, 5: 131 -139. Includes montanus and rex ; see Aimi, 1980, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ. Ser. BioL, 8:35-84. Corbet, 1978:99, tentatively included montanus in rex , which he listed as a species; Imaizumi, 1972, Mem. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, 5: 131-139, regarded both as distinct species; he believed them to be close to rufocanus , which also occurs on Hokkaido (as C. r. bedfordiae ) and possibly Rishiri (as sikotanensis ); also see Imaizumi, 1971, J. Mamm. Soc. Jpn., 5: 99-103. Revision of this species is needed for the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese forms; more than one species may be present (MLJ).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072004001.