The valid generic name for red-backed voles (Muroidea: Cricetidae: Arvicolinae): restatement of the case forMyodesPallas, 1811

Autor:	Igor Ya. Pavlinov, Alfred L. Gardner, Michael D. Carleton, Guy G. Musser
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Ecology biology Zoology biology.organism_classification Type species Taxon Arvicolinae Genus Genetics Correct name Animal Science and Zoology Muroidea Nomenclature Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation Cricetidae
Zdroj:	Journal of Mammalogy. 95:943-959
ISSN:	1545-1542 0022-2372
DOI:	10.1644/14-mamm-a-004
Popis:	In view of contradictions in the recent literature, the valid genus-group name to be applied to northern red-backed voles—Myodes Pallas, 1811, or Clethrionomys Tilesius, 1850—is reviewed. To develop the thesis that Myodes (type species, Mus rutilus Pallas, 1779) is the correct name, our discussion explores the 19th-century taxonomic works that bear on the relevant taxa, the transition in zoological codes apropos the identification of type species, and past nomenclatural habits in cases where no type species was originally indicated. We conclude that Myodes is the senior name to use for the genus-group taxon that includes the Holarctic species rutilus and frame this conclusion within a synonymy of the genus.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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