Alticola (Alticola) stoliczkanus (Blanford 1875)

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 : 961

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Alticola (Alticola) stoliczkanus (Blanford 1875) View in CoL

[Alticola (Alticola)] stoliczkanus (Blanford 1875) View in CoL , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 44: 107.

Type Locality: NW India, Ladakh (Kashmir), Kuenlun Mtns, Nubra Valley (as restricted by neotype designated by Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992:172).

Vernacular Names: Stoliczka's Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Alticola (Alticola) acrophilus (Miller 1899) ; Alticola (Alticola) bhatnagari Biswas and Khajuria 1955 ; Alticola (Alticola) kaznakovi (Satunin 1903) ; Alticola (Alticola) nanschanicus (Satunin 1903) ; Alticola (Alticola) stracheyi (Thomas 1880) .

Distribution: N India (Jammu, Kashmir; Himachal Pradesh; Agrawal, 2000), Nepal and N Sikkim, northward through Xizang (Tibet) to Kunlun Shan in S Xinjiang and Qinghai, N China ( Zhang et al., 1997); probably does not extend farther north than the Nan Shan and Qilian Shan (Rossilimo and Pavlinov, 1992; Rossilimo et al., 1994).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as A. stoliczkanus and A. stracheyi .

Discussion: Subgenus Alticola . The taxon stracheyi was conventionally included in A. stoliczkanus ( Schwarz, 1939; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Corbet, 1978 c; Rossolimo and Pavlinov, 1992) until reinstated as a species by Feng et al. (1986), as earlier arranged by Hinton (1926 a) and Ellerman (1941). Rossolimo and Pavlinov (1992) tentatively recognized three geographic clusters: one centered in Kashmir (typical stoliczkanus ), another along S Himalayan slopes from Nepal to Sikkim ( bhatnagari ), and the last ranging over Tibet and Kuen Lun Shan (lama). We follow their synonymy but emphasize that inquiries into the taxonomic significance of this geographic variation are warranted.

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.

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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.

Feng Zuo-jiang, Cai Gui-quan, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1986. [The mammals of Xizang. The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau]. Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 423 pp. (in Chinese).

Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).

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., 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.

Schwarz, E. 1939. On mountain-voles of the genus Alticola Blanford: A taxonomic and genetic analysis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, ser. B, 108: 663 - 668.

Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp.