A Brief Introduction to Systematics

Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region

“…Its taxonomic scope remained relatively stable over time. Gromov & Polyakov (1977) also included Dinaromys (now in Arvicolini) in this tribe and some authors classified Clethrionomyini as a subtribe of Arvicolini (Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1987) or Prometheomyini (Pavlinov et al 1995, Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1998. Kretzoi (1969a) proposed Myodini as a replacement name for Clethrionomyini but this violates Article 40.1. of the Code and is considered invalid.…”

“…Taxonomy. The majority of authorities accepted amurensis as a species in its own right, usually with the inclusion of ognevi (Corbet 1978, Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1987. In the opinion of some authors, amurensis also includes chrysogaster (Pavlinov & Lissovsky 2012), novosibiricus and part of chrysogaster (Musser & Carleton 2005); still others synonymised amurensis with sibiricus s.lat.…”

“…The oldest Palaearctic name for Beringian brown lemmings is chrysogaster, which was either considered a species in its own right (Vinogradov 1933, Corbet & Hill 1986, Pavlinov & Lissovsky 2012, a subspecies of a broadly defined sibiricus (Hinton 1926a, Gromov & Polyakov 1977, of obensis (Ognev 1948, Gromov et al 1963, of amurensis (Musser & Carleton 2005), or a subspecies of trimucronatus (Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1998, Shenbrot & Krasnov 2005, Pardiñas et al 2017. Similarly, flavescens was treated as a subspecies of sibiricus (Kostenko 1984, Musser & Carleton 1993, amurensis (Pavlinov 2006, Pardiñas et al 2017 or chrysogaster (Kuznetzov 1944); paulus was understood as a species in its own right (Hinton 1926a), a subspecies of chrysogaster (Kuznetzov 1944) or of sibiricus (Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1998, Musser & Carleton 1993). These synonyms have only recently begun to be accepted as conspecifics (under trimucronatus) (cf.…”

“…Taxonomy. Although described as a species in its own right, in the past A. barakshin was regarded as conspecific with either stoliczkanus (Gromov & Polyakov 1977, Corbet 1978, Pavlinov & Rossolimo 1987, roylei (Heptner & Rossolimo 1968, Honacki et al 1982, or argentatus (Sokolov & Orlov 1980). Full species status was restored on the grounds of morphology (Rossolimo 1989b) and confirmed using karyotype (Hielscher et al 1992), allozymes (Hille & Stubbe 1996) and nucleotide sequences (Lebedev et al 2007.…”

“…Main sources for the genus-and species-group names are Trouessart (1897Trouessart ( , 1904Trouessart ( , 1910, Palmer (1904), Miller (1912a), Allen (1940), Ellerman (1941), Ognev (1948Ognev ( , 1950, Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951), Corbet (1978), Pavlinov & Rossolimo (1987), Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000), and Musser & Carleton (2005).…”