Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Microtus savii (de Selys-Longchamps, 1838) . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 248 . TYPE LOCALITY: Italy , near Pisa . DISTRIBUTION: SE France , Italy , Sicily , and Elba (see map in Krapp, 1982c ). SYNONYMS: brachycercus , nebrodensis , selysii . COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola . Both Chaline et al. (1988) and Zagorodnyuk (1990) used this species as the core of a savii species group. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c , 1984 ) and Krapp (1982c) ; chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a) ; karyology of Italian samples documented by Gaileni et al. (1992). Closely related to the fossil A4, henseli from Sardinia and Corsica ( Brunet-Lecomte and Chaline, 1991 ; Krapp, 1982c ).