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 chrotorrhinus
Miller 1894
Microtus chrotorrhinus
Miller 1894
,
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 26: 190
.
Type Locality:
USA
,
New Hampshire
, Coos Co., Mt
Washington
, head of Tuckerman's Ravine,
5300 ft
(
1615 m
).
Vernacular Names:
Rock Vole
.
Synonyms:
Microtus carolinensis
Komarek 1932
;
Microtus ravus
Bangs 1898
.
Distribution:
S Labrador south through S
Quebec
and
Ontario
,
Canada
, to NE Minnesota, N New
York
, and N New
England
states,
USA
; isolated segments in the C (S
New York
, NE
Pennsylvania
) and S Appalachian Mtns (W
Maryland
to E
Tennessee
and W
North Carolina
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Data Deficient as
M. c.
ravus
, Lower Risk (nt) as
M. c.
carolinensis
, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Although conventionally viewed as closely related to (
Anderson, 1960
), if not conspecific with (
Hall and Kelson, 1959
),
M. xanthognathus
, morphological, chromosomal, and molecular information reveals their more distant kinship (
Bailey, 1900
;
Conroy and Cook, 2000
a
;
Guilday, 1982
;
R
. A.
Martin, 1973
, 1979;
Rausch and Rausch, 1974
). The expanded definition of the subgenus
Aulacomys
(=
M. chrotorrhinus
,
M. longicaudus
,
M. richardsoni
,
M. xanthognathus
) as conceived by
Zagorodnyuk (1990)
is decidedly polyphyletic on parsimony and likelihood trees generated from mitochondrial DNA sequences (
Conroy and Cook, 2000
a
). Genic variation evaluated by
Kilpatrick and Crowell (1985)
. See
Kirkland and Jannett (1982
, Mammalian Species, 180).