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 .