Arvicola Lacepede, 1799 . Tabl. Mamm., p. 10.

REVIEWED BY: J.-P. Airoldi (JPA); M. Andera (MA); M. L. Johnson (MLJ).

COMMENT: Considered by ¿Herman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:235, Hibbard et al., 1978, Contrib. Mus. Paleontol. Univ. Mich., 25(2):ll-44, Chaline and Mein, 1979, Martin, R. A., 1979, Evol. Monogr., 2:30, and Repenning, 1979, Abstr. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., to be Palearctic only by excluding Nearctic Microtus richardsoni . However, Hooper and Hart, 1962, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 120, 68 pp., Jannett, 1974, Am. Midi. Nat., 92:230-234, Corbet and Hill, 1980:161, and others included richardsoni as well (RSH). Placed in tribe Microtini (= Arvicolini) by Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:203.

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