Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
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1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Microtus (Terricola) savii
de Selys-Longchamps 1838
Microtus (Terricola) savii
de Selys-Longchamps 1838
,
Rev. Zool. Paris: 248
.
Type Locality:
Italy
, near Pisa.
Vernacular Names:
Savi's Pine Vole
.
Synonyms:
Microtus (Terricola) nebrodensis
Mina-Palumbo 1868
;
Microtus (Terricola) niethammericus
Contoli 2003
;
Microtus (Terricola) selysii
(Gerbe 1852)
;
Microtus (Terricola) tolfetanus
Contoli 2003
.
Distribution:
Italian peninsula (except NE and Calabrian Peninsulan in the south) and Sicily (
Amori et al., 1999
;
Cerone and Aloise, 1994
;
Cresti et al., 1994
;
Paolucci et al., 1993
), South
Tessin
in S
Switzerland
(
Hausser, 1995
), and marginally in SE
France
; thought to occur on Elba but that record is unconfirmed; sea level to
2000 m
(
Cheylan, 1991
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Subgenus
Terricola
,
savii
species group (Chaline et al., 1988;
Zagorodnyuk, 1990
). Revised by
Contoli (2003)
and
Krapp and Winking (1976)
and reviewed by
Corbet (1978
c
,
1984
),
Krapp (1982
c
)
, and Mitchell
Jones et al. (1999)
. Chromosomal data consolidated by
Zima and Kral (1984
a
)
; karyology of Italian samples documented by
Galleni et al. (1992
,
1994
,
1998
). Closely related to the living
M. brachycercus
on the Calabrian Peninsula (see species account) and two extinct species:
M. henseli
from Sardinia and
Corsica
(
Brunet-Lecomte and Chaline, 1991
;
Krapp, 1982
c
) and
M. melitensis
from
Malta
(
Brunet-Lecomte and Chaline, 1991
;
Burgio and Kotsakis, 1986
).