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<emphasis id="230B95901474940DA8D891FC88ACCBED" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">Microtus (Microtus) transcaspicus</emphasis>
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,
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Izv. Kavkas.
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.
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<emphasis id="B8F45AB286D10B1C573D3E93FE4CA40B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Kopet Dag Mtns, Chuli Valley, near Ashkhabad.
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<emphasis id="D058B157F088B631A3B75DFD978E0E51" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="938761AAACB3B09DE019A4668533DFF8" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A40888FB8B9906DBAF15D3F920CB7060" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">Microtus (Microtus) kermanensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="66C253860BC530A75E9728B02E50371D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Distribution:</emphasis>
Dry montane steppe habitats on isolated mountains from N slopes of Kopet-Dag Mtns in S
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(Meyer et al., 1996), mountains in E
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in the NE (
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Prov,
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N Kashmar,
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;
<bibRefCitation id="3E820EF36A5660EE818C63B4AF0F2141" author="Roguin, L. de" refId="ref309493" refString="Roguin, L. de. 1988. Notes sur quelques mammiferes du Baluchistan Iranien. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 95: 595 - 606." year="1988">Roguin, 1988</bibRefCitation>
), and the Hindu Kush of N
<collectingCountry id="467100A08FAC02192D2A16CD45D410EC" name="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="312B53BC9DD4B6FF8D0D19CD88CC0BA9" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92973" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1948. Key to the rodents of south-west Asia in the British Museum collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 118 (Part III): 765 - 816." year="1948">Ellerman, 1948</bibRefCitation>
;
<collectingRegion id="2092D998EC9A9ADF1F887732FC17A9BA" country="Afghanistan" name="Parwan">Parvan</collectingRegion>
Prov, Shibar Pass,
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).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="DF33F275F971BB7E5A2E8F88CF5E3C2E" pageNumber="1019">
<emphasis id="3B654F1A18D2BBF188164A99E9A8F8CD" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="836187F6527ACD290326F29366DBB4C5">IUCN</collectionCode>
Endangered as
<taxonomicName id="E4974ED3EE9D513AF53B0BE15BE29E9F" authorityName="Roguin" authorityYear="1988" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Microtus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kermanensis">
<emphasis id="5D1E947AAD721C50CE09EB30AB072FF6" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. kermanensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, Lower Risk (lc) as
<taxonomicName id="2FC3951CC79BFD1F7163F329D2FAEFAC" authorityName="Satunin" authorityYear="1905" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Microtus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="transcaspicus">
<emphasis id="FCB961C0ECDBED0AC4CBB7E4CAF29DB2" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. transcaspicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="947C23AA2F8735A0267E74F33786B606" pageNumber="1019">
<emphasis id="BFEFDBC95535E1F7BD739B7B85CE9DA4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1019">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="A36EFB526B802FD5FFE564E3D4B577C2" pageNumber="1019">
Subgenus
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<emphasis id="F98E5D570BC161181830CA4E8896EF70" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">Microtus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="9553FF1DA7F5E8A7BBCEEB01A1E5726A" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">arvalis</emphasis>
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species group (
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, 1998;
<bibRefCitation id="A6742C15DA1951C58F61859C10719AF5" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya &amp; E. L. Yakhontov &amp; A. K. Agadzhanyan" refId="ref278176" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian)." year="1995">
Pavlinov et al., 1995
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;
<bibRefCitation id="528B24234687FFB683F829F2214AEB8B" author="Zagorodnyuk, I. V." refId="ref402957" refString="Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian)." year="1990">Zagorodnyuk, 1990</bibRefCitation>
). Based on banding chromosomal data,
<bibRefCitation id="F4FA30FB17E44D0FACADBE1E6F450FC1" author="Mazurok, N. A. &amp; N. V. Rubtsova &amp; A. A. Isaenko &amp; T. B. Nesterova &amp; S. M. Zakian" refId="ref232492" refString="Mazurok, N. A., N. V. Rubtsova, A. A. Isaenko, T. B. Nesterova, and S. M. Zakian. 1996 b. Comparative analysis of chromosomes in Microtus transcaspicus and Microtus subarvalis (Arvicolidae, Rodentia): High-resolution G-banding and localization of NORs. Hereditas, 124: 243 - 250." year="1996">
Mazurok et al. (1996
<emphasis id="E52FF95BD7E2A6645CB529BC395A6F6D" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">b</emphasis>
)
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closely allied
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<emphasis id="50FAC2A20AA51E8336674C514F01EBBA" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. transcaspicus</emphasis>
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with
<taxonomicName id="F39802127C4BEA1678881B40A0E89EFF" authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1908" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Microtus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="levis">
<emphasis id="2E4CB3BDEDBF85BF515D0C3717A37E6C" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. levis</emphasis>
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among species in the
<taxonomicName id="FD29793DE625F9AF13AAC360028C9444" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1778" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Microtus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arvalis">
<emphasis id="1F2707A8B5AD8E266DF03ACD6EC10343" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. arvalis</emphasis>
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group, an association also supported by allozymic data (
<bibRefCitation id="065FA926185B648B804BDE92BDFE6C23" author="Mezhzherin, S. V. &amp; A. E. Zykov &amp; S. Yu. Morozov-Leonov" refId="ref240119" refString="Mezhzherin, S. V., A. E. Zykov, and S. Yu. Morozov-Leonov. 1993. [Biochemical variation and genetic divergence of Palearctic voles (Arvicolidae). Meadow voles, Microtus Schrank, 1798, snow voles, Chionomys Miller, 1908, water voles, Arvicola Lacepede, 1799.] Genetika, 29 (1): 28 - 41 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1993">Mezhzherin et al., 1993</bibRefCitation>
) and syntheses of karyology, morphology, and hybridization (Meyer et al., 1996). Taxonomy reviewed by
<bibRefCitation id="6DC40CBC625B8BEE5B4D700938DD204C" author="Malygin, V. M." refId="ref223286" refString="Malygin, V. M. 1978. [A comparative-morphological analysis of species from the group Microtus arvalis (Rodentia, Cricetidae).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67: 1062 - 1073 (in Russian)." year="1978">Malygin (1978)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="69BB6C56B35B933163004CB2A615650B" author="Meyer, M. N. &amp; T. A. Grishchenko &amp; E. V. Zybina" refId="ref239084" refString="Meyer, M. N., T. A. Grishchenko, and E. V. Zybina. 1981. [Experimental hybridization as a method of studying the degree of divergence of closely related species of the genus Microtus.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 60: 290 - 300 (in Russian)." year="1981">Meyer et al. (1981</bibRefCitation>
, 1996), and
<bibRefCitation id="80C4E825BFDD0D653DB20AAA8904F1B6" author="Meyer, M. N." refId="ref238811" refString="Meyer, M. N. 1983. [Evolution and taxonomic status of common voles of the subgenus Microtus in the fauna of the USSR.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 62: 90 - 101 (in Russian)." year="1983">Meyer (1983)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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described
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<emphasis id="925FF61FCEFAE43018C6DB839667A99A" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">kermanensis</emphasis>
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as a species, recognized as part of the
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<emphasis id="C22DAD9FCF558073E53A013AA97713E8" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. arvalis</emphasis>
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group (
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;
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Pavlinov et al., 1995
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;
<bibRefCitation id="2EF383F31CE7794FF5F317A0D25558D4" author="Zagorodnyuk, I. V." refId="ref402957" refString="Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1990. Kariotipicheskaya izmenchivost' i sistematika serykh polevok (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Soobshchenie 1. Vidovoi sostav i khromosomnye chisla [Karyotypic variability and systematics of the gray voles (Rodentia, Arvicolini). Communication 1. Species composition and chromosomal numbers]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 26 - 37 (in Russian)." year="1990">Zagorodnyuk, 1990</bibRefCitation>
). His description and specimen measurements fall within the range of variation typical of
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<emphasis id="E4A930FE7FEE0AC91319A6003570F03B" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. transcaspicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see review of
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<emphasis id="83A51DAE4399B8BAAFC910DE4C097B95" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. transcaspicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="5A1303F91BD58281C54F1AE19DB6F35F" name="Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</collectingCountry>
by Meyer et al., 1996), as do those large-bodied specimens of &quot;
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<emphasis id="7B3557581650FCE0BE62812A0672257B" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. arvalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot; from N
<collectingCountry id="189E1938AD6A579258A48A8BE2F0C045" name="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</collectingCountry>
reported by
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and
<bibRefCitation id="9985F380C1146A3A93234B9CEC7B804C" author="Hassinger, J. D." refId="ref142425" refString="Hassinger, J. D. 1973. A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats). Fieldiana: Zoology, 60: 1 - 195." year="1973">Hassinger (1973)</bibRefCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="2D4C25919077061E1D9D11217ADF7EDF" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">Microtus transcaspicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a valid species diagnosed in part by its very large size and diploid number (adult occipitonasal length =
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, 2n = 52) compared with the smaller-bodied
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<emphasis id="5662F629A9273B867DF36E3D0264C5AE" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">M. arvalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(occipitonasal length =
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, 2n = 46).
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<emphasis id="E121ED3028387CDD6DA9E4594ECEEC40" italics="true" pageNumber="1019">Microtus arvalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
does occur in the mountains of N
<collectingCountry id="01ED2E4F0843A94EDCE7236198372741" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
but has not been recorded so far east at those latitudes
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.
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