Microtus nesophilus V. Bailey, 1898. Science, n.s., 8:783. REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB). TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., New York, Suffolk Co., Great Gull Isl. off E. tip of Long Island. DISTRIBUTION: Great and Little Gull islands, off Long Island, New York (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; closely related to pennsylvanicus; to which Youngman, 1967, J. Mammal., 48: 586, referred it; now extinct; see Hall, 1981:796.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034