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
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.pdfOriginal name as described
Microtus oeconomus shantaricus
Other common names
Gromov's Vole
Type material
ZMMU S-31137
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-31137Type 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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