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 rufocanus
(Sundevall, 1846)
.
Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl.
Stockholm
, 3:122
.
REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).
TYPE
LOCALITY:
Sweden
, Lappmark
.
DISTRIBUTION: N. Palearctic from Scandinavia to Chukotka and to
Mongolia
, Transbaikalia, N.E.
China
;
Korea
; Kamchatka, Sakhalin (
U.S.
S.R.),
Hokkaido
and Rishiri Isl. (
Japan
).
COMMENT: Includes
bedfordiae;
see
Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:147
, and Corbet, 1978:99, but also see
Imaizumi, 1972
, Mem. Nat. Sci.
Mus
.
Tokyo
, 5: 131 -139. Includes
montanus
and
rex
;
see
Aimi, 1980
, Mem. Fac. Sci.
Kyoto
Univ. Ser. BioL, 8:35-84. Corbet, 1978:99, tentatively included
montanus
in
rex
,
which he listed as a species;
Imaizumi, 1972
, Mem. Nat. Sci.
Mus
.
Tokyo
, 5: 131-139, regarded both as distinct species; he believed them to be close to
rufocanus
,
which also occurs on
Hokkaido
(as C.
r. bedfordiae
)
and possibly Rishiri (as
sikotanensis
);
also see
Imaizumi, 1971
, J. Mamm. Soc. Jpn., 5: 99-103. Revision of this species is needed for the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese forms; more than one species may be present (MLJ).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008072004001.