MCZ Mammalogy 4365

Microtus breweri (Baird, 1858)

Syntype of Arvicola breweri

Date Collected:

1856-07-01/1856-07-31

North America: United States: Massachusetts: Nantucket: Muskeget Island | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:4365 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Mammalogy 4365 Description: Specimen photo; Aspect: lateral

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Media type: text; Coues and Allen 1877 shows cataloged_item Mammalogy 4305 shows cataloged_item 4306 shows cataloged_item 4307 shows cataloged_item 4308 shows cataloged_item 4309 shows cataloged_item 4310 shows cataloged_item 4311 shows cataloged_item 4312 shows cataloged_item 4313 shows cataloged_item 4314 shows cataloged_item 4315 shows cataloged_item 4316 shows cataloged_item 4317 shows cataloged_item 4318 shows cataloged_item 4321 shows cataloged_item 4325 shows cataloged_item 4319 shows cataloged_item 4320 shows cataloged_item 4322 shows cataloged_item 4323 shows cataloged_item 4324 shows cataloged_item 4326 shows cataloged_item 4327 shows cataloged_item 4328 shows cataloged_item 4329 shows cataloged_item 4330 shows cataloged_item 4331 shows cataloged_item 4332 shows cataloged_item 4333 shows cataloged_item 4335 shows cataloged_item 4336 shows cataloged_item 4337 shows cataloged_item 4338 shows cataloged_item 4339 shows cataloged_item 4340 shows cataloged_item 4341 shows cataloged_item 4342 shows cataloged_item 4343 shows cataloged_item 4344 shows cataloged_item 4345 shows cataloged_item 4346 shows cataloged_item 4347 shows cataloged_item 4348 shows cataloged_item 4350 shows cataloged_item 4351 shows cataloged_item 4352 shows cataloged_item 4353 shows cataloged_item 4354 shows cataloged_item 4355 shows cataloged_item 4356 shows cataloged_item 4357 shows cataloged_item 4358 shows cataloged_item 4359 shows cataloged_item 4360 shows cataloged_item 4361 shows cataloged_item 4362 shows cataloged_item 4363 shows cataloged_item 4364 shows cataloged_item 4334 shows cataloged_item 4349 shows cataloged_item 4365 Description: Monographs of North American Rodentia;

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Current Identification
Microtus breweri (Baird, 1858)
Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Cricetidae
Common Name(s): beach vole
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: migration
Previous Identifications
Arvicola breweri Baird, 1858
Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Cricetidae
Determiner: Spencer Fullerton Bairdlinked data icon in 1858
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Cotype (syntype)
Arvicola riparius
Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Cricetidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: MCZ Ledger

Baird 1857, page 525, Syntype of Arvicola breweri Baird, 1858
Media type: text; Baird 1857 Description: Repts. Explor. Surveys Railr. to Pacific Vol. XIII;

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Shows Publication: Baird 1857 Description: Repts. Explor. Surveys Railr. to Pacific Vol. XIII

  • original number: 2833

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: tissue; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2024-01-11
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2024-01-11   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (ethanol) unchecked in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
sex female By: Judith Marie Chupasko 2009-09-16
Remarks: JM Chupasko (9/16/2005) examined this specimen to determine the sex, it looks like a subadult female. It is hard to distinguish though. This was the only unsexed specimen from the type series.
age class subadult By: Judith Marie Chupasko 2009-09-16
Remarks: JM Chupasko (9/16/2005) examined this specimen to determine the sex, it looks like a subadult female. It is hard to distinguish though.
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2024-01-11
hind foot with claw 0.81 in By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description, "hind foot, length"
tail length 1.31 in By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description, "tail to end of vertebrae"
total length 3.10 in By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description, "nose to tail"
unformatted measurements nose to occiput= 1.08 inches By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description
unformatted measurements tail to end of hair [pencil]= 1.54 inches By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description
unformatted measurements nose to ear= 0.86 inches By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description
unformatted measurements nose to eye= 0.40 inches By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description
unformatted measurements Fore foot length= 0.40 inches By: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Remarks: migrated from type description

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  • Syntype

  • None

  • Continent:
  • North America
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Massachusetts
  • County:
  • Nantucket
  • Island:
  • Muskeget Island
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • [no specific locality data]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Muskeget Isl, Mass.
  • Georeference:
  • 41.3358170°, -70.298926° (Error radius: 1000m) By: Jeremy Kisala on 2020-09-04 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1856-07-01 / 1856-07-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • July 1856
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • Date migrated from type description
  • Collector:
  • T. M. Brewer

  • None

Media type: text; Mammalogy 4365; 4370; 4351; 4352; 4353; 4354; 4355; 4356; 4357; 4358; 4359; 4360; 4361; 4362; 4363; 4364; 4366; 4375; 4367; 4368; 4369; 4371; 4372; 4373; 4374 Description: MCZ Mammalogy Mammals 002801-008925, pg.63;

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Ledger Entry for: 25 cataloged items from MCZ:Mamm:4365 Microtus breweri Syntype to MCZ:...

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