Alticola (Alticola) roylei (Gray 1842)

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 : 960

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Alticola (Alticola) roylei (Gray 1842) View in CoL

[Alticola (Alticola)] roylei ( Gray 1842) View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 265.

Type Locality: India, Kumaon.

Vernacular Names: Royle's Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Alticola (Alticola) cautus Hinton 1926 .

Distribution: W Himalayas, 2600-3900 m, from Kulu Valley in Himachal Pradesh to N Kumaon in Uttar Pradesh, N India ( Agrawal, 2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Alticola . Once considered the broadest-ranging species of Alticola in central Asia, encompassing A. argentatus and many of its synonyms ( Corbet, 1978 c; Ellerman, 1961; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). With removal of the latter ( Rossolimo, 1989; Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992), the geographic and morphological definition of A. roylei conforms to that presented by Hinton (1926 a) and Ellerman (1941).

References

Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp.

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

Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 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.

Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.

Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.

Hinton, M. A. C. 1926 a. Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae) living and extinct. Volume 1. British Museum (Natural History), London, 488 pp.

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.