Order Rodentia (Part 4)
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
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book chapter
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Clethrionomys gapperi
(Vigors, 1830)
.
Zool. J., 5:204
.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
Canada
,
Ontario
, between York (=Toronto) and Lake Simcoe
.
DISTRIBUTION: From Labrador to N.
British Columbia
(
Canada
), south in the Appalachians to N.
Georgia
; Great Lakes, Northern Plains, and Rocky Mtns. (
New Mexico
and
Arizona
) to Columbia River in
Washington
(
U.S.A.
).
COMMENT: Includes
occidentalis
and
caurinus;
see
Johnson and Ostenson, 1959
, J. Mammal., 40:571-577,
Cowan and Guiguet, 1965
, The Mammals of
British Columbia
, Br. Columbia Prov.
Mus
. Handbook, 11: 1-413, and
Hall, 1981:780
, 782-783. Closely related to Eurasian
glareolus
;
captive mating produces fertile hybrids, but of reduced fertility; see
Grant, 1974
, J. Zool. Lond., 174:245-254.
Youngman, 1975
, Mammals of the
Yukon
Terr., Nat.
Mus
. Can. Publ. Zool., 10:85, considered
gapperi
and
rutilus
conspecific; but see
Nadler
et al.,
1978
, Can. J. Zool., 56(7): 1564-1575, and
Hall, 1981:778-784
; also see comment under
rutilus
.
Reviewed by
Merritt, 1981
, Mamm. Species, 146:1-9.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072001001 as C.
gapperi
.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072003001 as C.
occidentalis.