Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
955
1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Arborimus albipes
(Merriam 1901)
[Phenacomys] albipes
Merriam 1901
,
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 14: 125
.
Type Locality:
USA
,
California
, Humboldt Co., Humboldt Bay, redwood forest near Arcata.
Vernacular Names:
White-footed Vole
.
Distribution:
Pacific coastal zone south of Columbia River, from W
Oregon
to extreme NW
California
,
USA
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Data Deficient.
Discussion:
More generalized terrestrial form and habits have suggested a closer relationship to
Phenacomys intermedius
(e.g.,
Hall, 1981
, placed
albipes
and
intermedius
together in subgenus
Phenacomys
).
Johnson and Maser (1982)
enumerated character states that instead support closer congruence of
albipes
with species of
Arborimus
. However, see
Repenning and Grady (1988)
, who diagnosed the subgenus
Paraphenacomys
of
Phenacomys
to contain
albipes
, which they viewed as more distantly related to the sister species
intermedius
and
longicaudus
;
Paraphenacomys
is known by fossil forms from the late Pliocene of North America and Beringian Asia (
Repenning and Grady, 1988
; Repenning et al., 1987). See Verts and
Carraway (1995
, Mammalian Species, 494).