Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879)

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 : 958

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Alticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov 1879) View in CoL

[Alticola (Alticola)] argentatus (Severtzov 1879) View in CoL , Izv. Soc. Nat. Anthrop. Etnogr., 8 (2): 82.

Type Locality: Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains, Murgab District, Alichur.

Vernacular Names: Silver Mountain Vole.

Distribution: Tien Shan mountains from Xinjiang in NW China ( Ma et al., 1987); southwest through mountains of E Kazakhstan (Dzhungarskiy Alatau and other highlands) and Kyrgyzstan (Talasskiy Alatau and other local ranges); to Pamir Mtns of S Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, NW India ( Agrawal, 2000, discussed under A. blanfordi ), and the Hindu Kush of NW Pakistan and N Afghanistan; not present in Tibet or Himalayas.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Alticola , A. roylei-A. argentatus species group. Included under A. roylei by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978 c), but separated as a species by Rossolimo (1989) and Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992). Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992) speculated that A. argentatus descended from a Himalayan form morphologically similar to A. roylei , and in turn was the ancestor to northern A. tuvinicus . Trait-frequency data of m1s and M3s among 10 geographic samples documented by Tokmergenov (1992); M3 variation analyzed with geometric techniques by Pavlinov et al. (1994). See Rossolimo et al. (1994) for recognized subspecies.

References

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Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Ma Yong, Wang Feng-gui, Jin Shan-ke, and Li Si-hua. 1987. [Glires (rodents and lagomorphs) of Northern Xinjiang and their zoogeographical distribution.] Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 274 pp. (in Chinese).

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Ognev, S. I. 1940. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny. (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 4: 1 - 615 (in Russian).

Ognev, S. I. 1950. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 7: 1 - 706 + 15 maps (in Russian).

Pavlinov, I. Ya., O. V. Voltzit, and O. L. Rossolimo. 1994. [Analysis of variation of the shape by means of geometrical morphometrics : demonstration of some possibilities exemplified by tick gnathosoma (Acari: Ixodes) and vole molar (Mammalia: Alticola).] Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii, 55 (1): 110 - 118 (in Russian).

Rossolimo, O. L. 1989. [Revision of Royle's high-mountain vole Alticola (A.) argentatus (Mammalia: Cricetidae).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 68: 104 - 114 (in Russian).

Rossolimo, O. L., and I. Ya. Pavlinov. 1992. Species and subspecies of Alticola s. str. (Rodentia: Arvicolidae). Pp. 149 - 176, in Prague studies in mammalogy (I. Horacek and V. Vohralik, eds.). Charles University Press, Praha, 245 pp.

Rossolimo, O. L., I. Ya. Pavlinov, and R. S. Hoffmann. 1994. Systematics and distribution of the rock voles of the subgenus Alticola s. str. in the People's Republic of China (Rodentia: Arvicolinae). Acta Theriologica Sinica, 14 (2): 86 - 99.

Schlitter, D. A., and H. W. Setzer. 1973. New rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae, Muridae) from Iran and Pakistan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 86: 163 - 174.

Tokmergenov, T. 1992. [Analysis of intraspecific polymorphism of masticatory surface of the molars M 3 and M 1 in Royle's high-mountain vole.] Zooloichskeii Zhurnal, 71 (8): 104 - 123 (in Russian with English summary).