First Records of the Southern Red-backed Vole, Myodes gapperi, in the Yukon

Authors

  • Thomas S. Jung Yukon Department of Environment, Fish and Wildlife Branch, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
  • Amy M. Runck Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, 650 Memorial Drive, Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8007
  • David W. Nagorsen Mammalia Biological Consulting, 4268 Metchosin Road, Victoria, British Columbia V9C 3Z4
  • Brian G. Slough 35 Cronkhite Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5S9
  • Todd Powell Yukon Department of Environment, Fish and Wildlife Branch, P.O. Box 194, Watson Lake, Yukon Y0A 1C0

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v120i3.324

Keywords:

Southern Red-backed Vole, Myodes gapperi, distribution, Yukon

Abstract

Twenty Southern Red-backed Voles, Myodes gapperi, were collected in July 2004 in the LaBiche River valley of southeastern Yukon. Specimens were identified using morphological characteristics and analysis of cytochrome b gene sequences. These are the first records of this species in the Yukon. No Northern Red-backed Voles, M. rutilus, were collected and it is not known whether the two species are sympatric or parapatric in the Yukon. Further survey work is needed in southeastern Yukon to better delineate the extent of the northwestern range of this species and the extent, if any, of introgression with M. rutilus.

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Vol. 120 No. 3 (2006)

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