Arvicola Lacepede 1799

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 963

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Arvicola Lacepede 1799
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Arvicola Lacepede 1799 View in CoL

Arvicola Lacepede 1799 View in CoL , Tabl. Div. Subd. Orders Genres Mammiferes: 10.

Type Species: Mus amphibius Linnaeus 1758

Synonyms: Alviceola de Blainville 1817 ; Hemiotomys de Sélys Longchamps 1836 ; Ochetomys Fitzinger 1867 ; Paludicola Blasius 1857 ; Praticola Fatio 1867 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Arvicola amphibius ( Linnaeus 1758)

Species Arvicola sapidus Miller 1908

Species Arvicola scherman Shaw 1801

Discussion: Arvicolini, subtribe Arvicolina ( Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) . Arvicola is phylogenetically close to Microtus ( Burgos et al., 1989; Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982; Mezhzherin et al., 1993). Excludes the North American Microtus richardsoni (see that account), placed in Arvicola by Hooper and Hart (1962).

Heinrich (1990) hypothesized that Arvicola evolved from the extinct Mimomys , a view already presented by Hinton (1926 a). Many studies summarize the rich European fossil history, with differing emphases on the transition leading from Pliocene Mimomys or Cromeromys to the early Pleistocene Mimomys savini , and eventually to modern species of Arvicola ( Chaline, 1990; Chaline et al., 1999; Desclaux et al., 2000; Maul et al., 2000; Neraudeau et al., 1995; Rekovets, 1990). The European middle Pleistocene A. mosbachensis is the oldest species of Arvicola , as known to date, from which the living forms can be derived (Agadzhanian, 2000; Maul et al., 2000; Rekovets, 1990). In broad phylogeographic studies of A. sapidus and terrestris (here = A. amphibius ), Taberlet et al. (1998) and Hewitt (1999) identified S European peninsulas (Iberian, Italian, and Balkan) as major ice-age refugia from which genetically distinct taxa emerged. Kolfschoten (1992) presented another view of postglacial immigrations, extinctions, and recolonizations, as based on the Arvicola fossil record in NW Europe.

Panteleyev’s (2000) monograph exhaustively treats Arvicola ’s systematics and phylogeny, morphology and physiology, ecology and behavior, and agricultural and epidemiological impacts. The number of species recognized has varied from one ( terrestris — Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951), to four ( amphibius , sapidus , scherman , and terrestris — Hinton, 1926 a) or seven ( amphibius , illyricus , italicus , musignani , sapidus , scherman , and terrestris — Miller, 1912 a), but usually just two ( sapidus and terrestris —e.g., Corbet et al., 1970; Corbet, 1978 c, 1984; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Here, we acknowledge the strongly differentiated fossorial form, A. scherman , as a third species, along with A. amphibius and A. sapidus , although we anticipate that future revisionary research will undoubtedly converge towards Miller’s (1912 a) recognition of biodiversity .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

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Arvicola Lacepede 1799

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Arvicola

Lacepede 1799: 10
1799
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