Microtus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830) . Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 3:133.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Georgia, Liberty Co., old LeConte plantation near Riceboro (as interpreted by Bailey, 1900:63) .

DISTRIBUTION: Temperate deciduous forest zone of E USA: eastern shoreline from S Maine to N Florida, west to C Wisconsin and E Texas.

SYNONYMS: auricularis, carbonarius, kennicottii, nemoralis, parvulus, scalopsoides, schmidti .

COMMENTS: Type species of Pitymys (see remarks under genus for variable treatment of this taxon). Van der Meulen (1978) regarded nemoralis and parvulus as species distinct from pinetorum in the genus Pitymys, as did Repenning (1983) for nemoralis . Their conclusions have yet to be critically examined with a broader array of information bases, although limited chromosomal and genetic surveys promise future insight (Moore and Janecek, 1990; J. W. Wilson, 1984). See Smolen (1981, Mammalian Species, 147).