Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879)

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 : 958

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879)
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Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879) View in CoL

[Alticola (Alticola)] argentatus (Severtzov 1879) View in CoL , Izv. Soc. Nat. Anthrop. Etnogr., 8 (2): 82.

Type Locality: Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains, Murgab District, Alichur.

Vernacular Names: Silver Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Alticola (Alticola) alaica Rosanov 1935 ; Alticola (Alticola) argurus (Thomas 1909) ; Alticola (Alticola) blanfordi (Scully 1880) ; Alticola (Alticola) gracilis Kashkarov 1923 ; Alticola (Alticola) lahulius Hinton 1926 ; Alticola (Alticola) leucurus (Severtsov 1873) ; Alticola (Alticola) longicauda Kashkarov 1923 ; Alticola (Alticola) longicaudata Ognev 1950 ; Alticola (Alticola) parvidens Schlitter and Setzer 1973 ; Alticola (Alticola) phasma Miller 1912 ; Alticola (Alticola) rosanovi Ognev 1940 ; Alticola (Alticola) saurica Afanasiev and Bazhanov 1948 ; Alticola (Alticola) shnitnikovi Ognev 1940 ; Alticola (Alticola) severtzovi (Tichomirov and Korchagin 1889) ; Alticola (Alticola) subluteus Thomas 1914 ; Alticola (Alticola) tarasovi Rossolimo and Pavlinov 1992 ; Alticola (Alticola) villosa Kashkarov 1923 ; Alticola (Alticola) worthingtoni Miller 1906 .

Distribution: Tien Shan mountains from Xinjiang in NW China ( Ma et al., 1987); southwest through mountains of E Kazakhstan (Dzhungarskiy Alatau and other highlands) and Kyrgyzstan (Talasskiy Alatau and other local ranges); to Pamir Mtns of S Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, NW India ( Agrawal, 2000, discussed under A. blanfordi ), and the Hindu Kush of NW Pakistan and N Afghanistan; not present in Tibet or Himalayas.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Alticola , A. roylei-A. argentatus species group. Included under A. roylei by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978 c), but separated as a species by Rossolimo (1989) and Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992). Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992) speculated that A. argentatus descended from a Himalayan form morphologically similar to A. roylei , and in turn was the ancestor to northern A. tuvinicus . Trait-frequency data of m1s and M3s among 10 geographic samples documented by Tokmergenov (1992); M3 variation analyzed with geometric techniques by Pavlinov et al. (1994). See Rossolimo et al. (1994) for recognized subspecies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Alticola

Loc

Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Alticola (Alticola)] argentatus (Severtzov 1879)

Severtzov 1879: 82
1879
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