Arvicola amphibius variabilis Ognev, 1933

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Arvicola amphibius variabilis Ognev, 1933

Type locality: Barabinsk steppes Govt. Tomsk, Siberia .

Notes: Large, orthodont, and aquatic water voles. Arvicola terrestris variabilis Ognev, 1933 , is preoccupied by Arvicola arvalis form variabilis Rörig et Börner, 1905 (now a junior synonym of Microtus arvalis ) and was renamed Microtus terrestris barabensis Heptner, 1948 . This name (sensu Gromov and Erbajeva 1995) is applicable to our samples from Russia (pts. 27–29 on Figure 1 ).

Figures

Figure 1 Distribution of water vole samples sequenced for cytochrome b gene. Approximate ranges of ArVicola amphibiUS S.S. and A. Scherman follow Batsaikhan et al. (2008) and Amori et al. (2008a), respectively. Symbols for morphotypes (∆ – fossorial; □ – aquatic) correspond to those in Figure 4 and Table 1. Samples of unknown morphotype are denoted by circles.