Abstract
In the not too distant past the name Alticola roylei was used to encompass mountain voles which are currently classified as six different species. Such wide use of the taxonomic name still blurs the lines among species of mountain voles in northern India and adjacent Pakistan. By studying museum vouchers we redefine the taxonomic and geographical scope of A. roylei, a mountain vole which is characterized by a combination of dark (hair-brown) dorsal fur and moderately long tail, bowed zygomatic arches, small bullae, and moderately complex third upper molars. Two names (lahulius and cautus) are listed as junior synonyms of roylei. We identified 19 localities as evidence on the presence of Royle’s mountain vole in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal in India. Further three localities extend the range into Nepal. The total area of the species’ occurrence is estimated as 15,290 km2. Royle’s mountain vole is allopatric with respect to further two mountain voles of Nepal and northern India, Alticola stoliczkanus (a single case of sympatry in Manaslu) and Aticola montosus.
Acknowledgments
For access to specimens we thank (abc of collection acronomys): Paula Jenkins and Roberto Portela Miguez (BMNH), Darrin Lunde and Nicole R. Edmison (NMNH), Frank Zachos (NMW), Irina Ruf and Katrin Krohmann (SMF), Alexandr A. Pozdnyakov (SZM), Nataliya Abramson and Alexandra N. Davydova (ZIN), and Igor Pavlinov and Vladimir Lebedev (ZMMU). Neal Woodman (USNM) provided advice on etymological details. Visit of B.K. to BMNH received support from the SYNTHESYS Project http://www.synthesys.info/ which is financed by the European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 Integrating Activities Programme.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Studies
- Effect of supplementary feeding on the social behaviour and distribution patterns of free-ranging southern white rhinoceros
- Activity patterns in sympatric carnivores in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, southern-central Chile
- Niche overlap and shared distributional patterns between two South American small carnivorans: Galictis cuja and Lyncodon patagonicus (Carnivora: Mustelidae)
- Rapid assessment of nonvolant mammals in seven sites in the northern State of Pará, Brazil: a forgotten part of the Guiana Region
- Unpaved roads are not adequate surrogates of true transects for sampling agoutis
- Taxonomic and geographic setting of Royle’s mountain vole Alticola roylei revisited
- Taxonomic reassessment of bats from Castelnau’s expedition to South America (1843–1847): Phyllostoma angusticeps Gervais, 1856 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
- Short Notes
- White-lipped peccaries are recorded at Iguaçu National Park after 20 years
- New record of feeding behavior by the porcupine Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) in high-altitude grassland of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
- Toucan predation attempt on a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Long-term cave roosting in the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum)
- On the rare species Amphinectomys savamis Malygin 1994 (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): new record and morphological considerations
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Studies
- Effect of supplementary feeding on the social behaviour and distribution patterns of free-ranging southern white rhinoceros
- Activity patterns in sympatric carnivores in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, southern-central Chile
- Niche overlap and shared distributional patterns between two South American small carnivorans: Galictis cuja and Lyncodon patagonicus (Carnivora: Mustelidae)
- Rapid assessment of nonvolant mammals in seven sites in the northern State of Pará, Brazil: a forgotten part of the Guiana Region
- Unpaved roads are not adequate surrogates of true transects for sampling agoutis
- Taxonomic and geographic setting of Royle’s mountain vole Alticola roylei revisited
- Taxonomic reassessment of bats from Castelnau’s expedition to South America (1843–1847): Phyllostoma angusticeps Gervais, 1856 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
- Short Notes
- White-lipped peccaries are recorded at Iguaçu National Park after 20 years
- New record of feeding behavior by the porcupine Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) in high-altitude grassland of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
- Toucan predation attempt on a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Long-term cave roosting in the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum)
- On the rare species Amphinectomys savamis Malygin 1994 (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): new record and morphological considerations