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
Microtus (Mynomes) breweri
Baird 1857
Microtus (Mynomes) breweri
Baird 1857
,
Mammalia
, in: Repts.
U. S.
Expl. Surv., Vol. 8, 1: 525
.
Type Locality:
USA
,
Massachusetts
, Muskeget Isl, off Nantucket.
Vernacular Names:
Beach Vole
.
Distribution:
Known only from the type locality.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion:
Subgenus
Mynomes
,
pennsylvanicus
species group
sensu
Zagorodnyuk (1990)
. An insular vicariant of
M. pennsylvanicus
, the two are inseparable karyotypically (
Fivush et al., 1975
;
Modi, 1986
), marginally distinct electrophoretically (
Kohn and Tamarin, 1978
), but morphologically sharply discrete (
Bailey, 1900
;
Miller, 1896
;
Moyer et al., 1988
). Although posited as conspecific with
M. pennsylvanicus
(e.g.,
Corbet and Hill, 1991
;
Jones et al., 1986
;
Modi, 1986
;
Whitaker and Hamilton, 1998
),
Moyer et al. (1988)
mustered convincing evidence for the retention of
breweri
as a species. See
Tamarin and Kunz (1974
, Mammalian Species, 45).