Microtus (Mynomes) canicaudus Miller 1897

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 : 994

Microtus (Mynomes) canicaudus Miller 1897

Microtus (Mynomes) canicaudus Miller 1897 , Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11: 67.

Type Locality: USA, Oregon, Polk Co., Willamette Valley, McCoy.

Vernacular Names: Gray-tailed Vole.

Distribution: Willamette Valley, NW Oregon ( Verts and Carraway, 1998:Fig. 11-111) and adjacent Washington, USA.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Mynomes . Reduced to a subspecies of M. montanus by Hall and Kelson (1951); resurrected to specific status based on karyotypic and electrophoretic evidence ( Hsu and Johnson, 1970; Johnson, 1968; Modi, 1986). Sibling species to M. montanus ( Hoffmann and Koeppl, 1985; Modi, 1986, 1987; Zagorodnyuk, 1990) or to M. townsendii ( Conroy and Cook, 2000 a; Conroy et al., 2001). See Verts and Carraway (1987, Mammalian Species, 267).