Arvicolidae, Gray, 1821

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 478

Family Arvicolidae

REVIEWED BY: J. Chaline (JC); R. S. Hoffmann (RSH); L. D. Martin (LDM); C. A. Repenning ( CAR); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR)( U.S. S.R.); W. von Koenigswald (WVK); S. Wang (SW) ( China).

COMMENT: For assignment of name and family rank, see Kretzoi, 1962, Vert. Hungar. (Budapest), 4: 171-175, Kretzoi, 1969, Vert. Hungar. (Budapest), 11: 155-193, Van der Meulen, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47: 101-145, Chaline and Mein, 1979, and Reig, 1980, J. Zool. Lond., 192:260. For a review of alternative classifications of the rodents, see Swanepoel et al., 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32(7): 155-196, and Anderson and Jones, 1967. CAR retained this group in Cricetidae .