Myodes rutilus (Pallas 1778)
- Dataset
- Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Cricetidae
- genus
- Myodes
- species
- Myodes rutilus
discussion
Remarks: The northern red-backed vole in Korea has been regarded as M. r. hintoni or M. r. amurensis. Although hintoni is now considered a synonym of amurensis (Won 1968), a re-examination of the subspecific status for Korean populations of Myodes rutilus seems necessary due to considerable local variation such as shorter tail with long hairs on a floccus (Won 1968). In northeastern Asia, four lineages of M. rutilus (central Siberia, fareastern Siberia, Alaska-Kamchatka / Sakhalin and Hokkaido) were identified by using cytochrome b (Iwasa et al. 2002). Kohli et al. (2015) analyzed the same gene and confirmed similar lineages (western = central Siberia; central = far eastern Siberia; and eastern clade with 3 subgroups, Bering, Sakhalin, and Hokkaido), but nuclear gene analysis showed poor structuring among lineages.
distribution
Range: Myodes rutilus occurs in the extreme northeastern region of the Korean Peninsula (Fig. 121). The southern limit of the range is in Chail Peak, Ryanggang-Province (Kim et al. 2015).