Alexandromys shantaricus

(Ognev, 1929)

Shantar Vole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Microtini
Genus : Alexandromys
Subgenus : Alexandromys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Ognev, S.I. 1929. Млекопитающие Шантарских островов. Известия Тихоокеанской научно-промысловой станции 2(5):1-42.

Authority publication link

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/pdf/shantar.pdf

Original name as described

Microtus oeconomus shantaricus

Other common names

Gromov's Vole

Type material

ZMMU S-31137

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Bolshoi Shantar Island, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia

Taxonomy notes

split from A. maximowiczii under the name gromovi; moved from Microtus to Alexandromys; the name shantaricus Ognev, 1929 was recently shown to apply to this species, which gives the name nomenclatural priority over gromovi Vorontsov, Boeskorov, Lyapunova, & Revin, 1988; species epithet changed from gromovi to shantaricus

Taxonomy notes citation

Sheremetyeva, I. N., Kartavtseva, I. V., Voyta, L. L., Kryukov, A. P., & Haring, E. (2009). Morphometric analysis of intraspecific variation in Microtus maximowiczii (Rodentia, Cricetidae) in relation to chromosomal differentiation with reinstatement of Microtus gromovi Vorontsov, Boeskorov, Lyapunova et Revin, 1988, stat. nov. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 47(1), 42-48. · Liu, S., Jin, W., Liu, Y., Murphy, R. W., Lv, B., Hao, H., ... & Fu, J. (2016). Taxonomic position of Chinese voles of the tribe Arvicolini and the description of 2 new species from Xizang, China. Journal of Mammalogy, gyw170. · Dokuchaev, N. E., & Sheremetyeva, I. N. (2018). The identity of gray voles (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from Bolshoi Shantar Island, Sea of Okhotsk, with Gromov's vole (Alexandromys gromovi Vorontsov et al. 1988). Biology Bulletin, 45(7), 783-787. · Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., Poplavskaya, N. S., Simanovsky, S. A., Undrakhbayar, E., Adiya, Y., & Surov, A. S. (2019). Phylogeny and phylogeography of arvicoline and lagurine voles of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 68(2), 100-113.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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