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) 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).