Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, Volume (8), No (3), Year (2015-9) , Pages (233-237)

Title : ( Morphological and morphometric characterization of the new records of the East European vole (Microtus levis Miller, 1908) from northeast Iran )

Authors: Fateme Ghorbani , , Jamshid Darvish , Haji GholiKami , Roohollah Siahsarvie ,

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Abstract

Thirteen specimens of Microtus levis were collected from Golestan province, northeast Iran. The specimens were studied based on their external characters, skull and dental morphology, and specially karyology. Specimens of M. levis from the northeast of Iran were also compared with other species of the arvalis group from Iran and specimens of M. levis from Turkey. The specimens demonstrated that 2n ¼ 54 and fundamental number FN¼ 54. The karyological results were similar between specimens from northeast Iran and those from Turkey, but they were different from specimens of Europe. In addition, the morphometric characters of M. levis, including head and body length (mean ¼ 105.77_ 7.53), length of condylobasal (mean ¼ 24.96_ 0.97), length of bullae (mean ¼ 6.57 _ 0.34), and dental characters consisting of maxillary tooth row (mean ¼ 6.17 _ 0.25) and mandibular tooth row (mean ¼ 5.60 _ 0.33), were different from those of other species of the arvalis group.

Keywords

Hyrcanian region; Microtus levis; morphometry; northeast Iran
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@article{paperid:1076095,
author = {Ghorbani, Fateme and , and Darvish, Jamshid and Haji GholiKami and Siahsarvie, Roohollah},
title = {Morphological and morphometric characterization of the new records of the East European vole (Microtus levis Miller, 1908) from northeast Iran},
journal = {Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity},
year = {2015},
volume = {8},
number = {3},
month = {September},
issn = {2287-884X},
pages = {233--237},
numpages = {4},
keywords = {Hyrcanian region; Microtus levis; morphometry; northeast Iran},
}

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%T Morphological and morphometric characterization of the new records of the East European vole (Microtus levis Miller, 1908) from northeast Iran
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%A ,
%A Darvish, Jamshid
%A Haji GholiKami
%A Siahsarvie, Roohollah
%J Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
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%D 2015

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