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<emphasis id="11C466C935B849F71912FCBCA957F2E7" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus flavicollis</emphasis>
Melchior 1834
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<taxonomicName id="FFF915DE3BBF74791D21BD1326D65FE1" ID-CoL="FRHZ" authority="Melchior 1834" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="2057AE55F7BE67CEA3B0736340F05ACA" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus flavicollis</emphasis>
Melchior 1834
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="60AD59E9FCEFCD4BD5C16BC7A8EB14FC" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="513C4974F00313733942DD806AC1D0C8" name="Denmark">Denmark</collectingCountry>
, Sieland Isl.
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<emphasis id="447596EB1B68F3FDBA46B885974CCB82" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="4049E3D77C51C76234A0D5E62992BC24" language="eng" pageNumber="1265">Yellow-necked Field Mouse</vernacularName>
.
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<taxonomicName id="05F6599C97E06FB9CEF9C26E65359B33" authority="(Blanford 1881)" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1881" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arianus">
<emphasis id="C990BF51FA3E487DFB7D150DCFAA4558" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus arianus</emphasis>
(Blanford 1881)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="F11923E33BA517267C02EC84F2422A31" authority="Martino 1927" authorityName="Martino" authorityYear="1927" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brauneri">
<emphasis id="FD3B209F054EFAE85B0D67B33439C814" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus brauneri</emphasis>
Martino 1927
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="5DAE639A0230884E3329877419F8C7D9" authority="(Fischer 1866)" baseAuthorityName="Fischer" baseAuthorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cellarius">
<emphasis id="E225D0A9E58A7387348EF0A557D6CBE8" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus cellarius</emphasis>
(Fischer 1866)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="02A3EDB339145AC2F3A40FDD35FD5187" authority="Kahmann 1964" authorityName="Kahmann" authorityYear="1964" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dietzi">
<emphasis id="89BD93A2C414A49DDF954FF7AB59F247" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus dietzi</emphasis>
Kahmann 1964
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="E024F5022920209CFC5DBDC3F852D4B9" authority="(Blanford 1875)" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1875" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythronotus">
<emphasis id="E59FC492A911E54D1E236D510BFECA38" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus erythronotus</emphasis>
(Blanford 1875)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="E3CCA5C252801502EC3B73D060FE13B5" authority="(Hilzheimer 1911)" baseAuthorityName="Hilzheimer" baseAuthorityYear="1911" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fennicus">
<emphasis id="EDD92D0CC69694F11A7E91CF760E06CF" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus fennicus</emphasis>
(Hilzheimer 1911)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="8C18A3DD7D1904D2040A5AB36BB9D6FC" authority="Lehmann 1961" authorityName="Lehmann" authorityYear="1961" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="geminae">
<emphasis id="1CF2795D98F671FCD315F18EFF3A8E7C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus geminae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A023CF1D6A9288A30D24EBD23C22DFF3" author="Lehmann, E. von" refId="ref209425" refString="Lehmann, E. von. 1961. Uber die kleinsauger der La Sila (Kalabrien). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 167 (5 - 6): 213 - 227." year="1961">Lehmann 1961</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="F4DF2680382D0AF27EEADFA560D38290" authority="Bate 1942" authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="levantinus">
<emphasis id="3AB24E25FD7EB16F7D5FF9F249864036" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus levantinus</emphasis>
Bate 1942
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="5EE28E8CE6CAAF0DE27BE4601AE46F78" authority="(Barrett-Hamilton 1900)" baseAuthorityName="Barrett-Hamilton" baseAuthorityYear="1900" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="princeps">
<emphasis id="AEB44472A08723E8A8C4F99FDFEE8B6C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus princeps</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="34ADA86C7138C26CDAD9A1E081992A40" author="Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H." refId="ref21800" refString="Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H. 1900. On geographical and individual variation in Mus sylvaticus and its allies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900: 387 - 428." year="1900">Barrett-Hamilton 1900</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="B4D2A0D6008B52A45C34AE1980FB7B11" authority="Ognev 1923" authorityName="Ognev" authorityYear="1923" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="samariensis">
<emphasis id="D3B4514163F7F5412A8AF7222D9B37D9" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus samariensis</emphasis>
Ognev 1923
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="C84A0064C0969DB7BDA1883BEB5A1712" authority="Neuhäuser 1936" authorityName="Neuhäuser" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saturatus">
<emphasis id="04AA5D7C9F20D3C11BC3CB5600CAFA1E" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus saturatus</emphasis>
Neuhäuser 1936
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="01A4200F1700C97F6D6B1EF426F3E649" authority="Martino and Martino 1937" authorityName="Martino and Martino" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="5CA2136859088BEA7240D474CA52B23E" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus stankovici</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="378F7EBC8731A165D630B65E9CEB3F47" author="Martino, E. &amp; V. Martino" refId="ref228040" refString="Martino, E., and V. Martino. 1937. Preliminary note on four new rodents from Korab Mountains. Annual Magazine of Natural History, 19 (sec. 19): 515 - 518." year="1937">Martino and Martino 1937</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="05A7A62F52EB3CF3AF6C4CDF52329B83" authority="(Pallas 1811)" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1811" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tauricus">
<emphasis id="625B268BDE0E65CEFD8BD6DE0ACC70E1" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus tauricus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="2A58DD7F075AB0FEBF3536DE913D0536" author="Pallas, P. S." refId="ref271664" refString="Pallas, P. S. 1811 [1831]. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium Animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicillia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. [ICZN Opinion 212 -- dates of volumes: 1 &amp; 2: 1811; 3: 1814]. Petropoli, in officina Caes. acadamiae scientiarum. 3 vol. [official date of publ for vol 1 - 1811 impress], 1: 1 - 568." year="1811">Pallas 1811</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="64772841A60FEC14FA2E764FDBD96129" authority="(Barrett-Hamilton 1900)" baseAuthorityName="Barrett-Hamilton" baseAuthorityYear="1900" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="typicus">
<emphasis id="18AB9B0151FBD103D0E1E09C9E63A073" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus typicus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9683D316DD7670499A62C8888E020919" author="Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H." refId="ref21800" refString="Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H. 1900. On geographical and individual variation in Mus sylvaticus and its allies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900: 387 - 428." year="1900">Barrett-Hamilton 1900</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="BD3D37B05480502BACA2940F82E6896B" authority="(Barrett-Hamilton 1899)" baseAuthorityName="Barrett-Hamilton" baseAuthorityYear="1899" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1265" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="wintoni">
<emphasis id="2CA3D1481F702C2763304488D844EF16" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus wintoni</emphasis>
(Barrett-Hamilton 1899)
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph id="3A7D5B7E65BDB4F4EE1E02379EB5D665" pageNumber="1265">
<emphasis id="A2176D2B96D6494D15D8A1710E3B3DE7" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Distribution:</emphasis>
S
<collectingCountry id="8D5E295860E8871055F57702F50898AB" name="United Kingdom">England and Wales</collectingCountry>
; on the continent from N
<collectingCountry id="4DB9061D435B7FA1E3B8E51FCF78F6B5" name="Spain">Spain</collectingCountry>
through most of Europe to 64E N in S
<collectingCountry id="729998CBB3BF862C037E8D3E4AC85AE9" name="Finland">Finland</collectingCountry>
and S
<collectingCountry id="EF907332F9E92456870129AEDE0FB65F" name="Sweden">Sweden</collectingCountry>
, and south to S
<collectingCountry id="3F286FB78C7569CE3CBB2EF1E1E5C8B4" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
, Balkan region, and
<collectingCountry id="FCE3F1EB2ECD751CE3923766F7370C6A" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9A7A1E91860090E5154B05CAA262B92F" author="Mitchell-Jones, A. J. &amp; G. Amori &amp; W. Bogdanowicz &amp; B. Krystufek &amp; P. J. H. Reijnders &amp; F. Spitzenberger &amp; M. Stubbe &amp; J. B. M. Thissen &amp; V. Vohralik &amp; J. Zima" refId="ref243793" refString="Mitchell-Jones, A. J., G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek, P. J. H. Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, J. B. M. Thissen, V. Vohralik, and J. Zima. 1999. Atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, 496 pp." year="1999">Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="7AA82C93936D6811D8052B54F72E25EB" author="Van der Straeten, E." refId="ref364212" refString="Van der Straeten, E. 1977 a. Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) in Nederland. Lutra, 19: 20 - 21." year="1977">
Van der Straeten, 1977
<emphasis id="6246E117C618EDF0D50F2F8FF8D1DE0C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
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); east through
<collectingCountry id="A749A1F56E3636BE4E39487B22D650BB" name="Belarus">Belarus</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="9742A33F7B0ABC6BDE722A27761404EC" name="Ukraine">Ukraine</collectingCountry>
to Urals; throughout
<collectingCountry id="78E3D61C4579955E135770DBFFF0D75C" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
(Filippucci et al., 1996;
<bibRefCitation id="0E9630B8012CF70D5373D130631F6DDB" author="Frynta, D. &amp; P. Mikulova &amp; E. Suchomelova &amp; J. Sadlova" refId="ref110234" refString="Frynta, D., P. Mikulova, E. Suchomelova, and J. Sadlova. 2001. Discriminant analysis of morphometric characters in four species of Apodemus (Muridae: Rodentia) from eastern Turkey and Iran. Israel Journal of Zoology, 47: 243 - 258." year="2001">Frynta et al., 2001</bibRefCitation>
; Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001; Macholán et al., 2001
<emphasis id="993C9B3593C7C795F99EFF5E859649E4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A7F5FB0A588529655B110A8B59C22030" author="Pamukoglu, N. &amp; I. Albayrak" refId="ref272014" refString="Pamukoglu, N., and I. Albayrak. 1996. The rodents of Kastamonu Province (Mammalia: Rodentia). Communications de la Faculte des Sciences de Universite d'Ankara, Serie C, Biologie, 14: 1 - 22." year="1996">Pamukoglu and Albayrak, 1996</bibRefCitation>
; specimens in
<collectionCode id="388A43F806AC8D4B33DF6C5FEADA351F" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
) and east to W
<collectingCountry id="41F13F558F777D795A21D987F09C7BF8" name="Armenia">Armenia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="1DAD41B503F1E0B8F4B8DB7A550AE186" author="Frynta, D. &amp; P. Mikulova &amp; E. Suchomelova &amp; J. Sadlova" refId="ref110234" refString="Frynta, D., P. Mikulova, E. Suchomelova, and J. Sadlova. 2001. Discriminant analysis of morphometric characters in four species of Apodemus (Muridae: Rodentia) from eastern Turkey and Iran. Israel Journal of Zoology, 47: 243 - 258." year="2001">Frynta et al., 2001</bibRefCitation>
; Macholán et al., 2001), Zagros Mtns of W
<collectingCountry id="1ABB63B377B7829B0D223E718F5986EC" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
(Kryštufek, 2002
<emphasis id="A5549602313E06AB1D2E3915BEE3F639" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
; Macholán et al, 2001;
<collectionCode id="4373A13619BF2FB92903F446767522B8" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
material), and south to
<collectingCountry id="EE0F4109DBD7449390DBBAF3E0EA49A5" name="Syria">Syria</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="5D639151D218C56BCB718B5CA31C8985" name="Lebanon">Lebanon</collectingCountry>
, and C and N
<collectingCountry id="A6852FDC65517D0BC6DCD58D9039B8E2" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
(
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="B0C63531C44FBF2A7E6112287304E5D9" author="Qumsiyeh, M. B." refId="ref294955" refString="Qumsiyeh, M. B. 1996. Mammals of the Holy Land. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 389 pp." year="1996">Qumsiyeh, 1996:289</bibRefCitation>
). The species also occurs on some NE Aegean Isls off W coast of
<collectingCountry id="A064CBA7AFF608672A96CE0FB34A1426" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
(Özkan and Kryštufek, 1999) and S
<collectingCountry id="54BA8D5B6D50D9B75DB09CB6F484A62A" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
(Vohralík et al., 1996), Adriatic islands (
<bibRefCitation id="8553B9C3913D16C2A0BF4F21DB48B6A1" author="Mitchell-Jones, A. J. &amp; G. Amori &amp; W. Bogdanowicz &amp; B. Krystufek &amp; P. J. H. Reijnders &amp; F. Spitzenberger &amp; M. Stubbe &amp; J. B. M. Thissen &amp; V. Vohralik &amp; J. Zima" refId="ref243793" refString="Mitchell-Jones, A. J., G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek, P. J. H. Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, J. B. M. Thissen, V. Vohralik, and J. Zima. 1999. Atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, 496 pp." year="1999">Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
), and Corfu in the Mediterranean (
<bibRefCitation id="EF7014CB34302B2F7CD29F94282B9ACC" author="Cheylan, G." refId="ref60499" refString="Cheylan, G. 1991. Patterns of Pleistocene turnover, current distribution and speciation among Mediterranean mammals. Pp. 227 - 262, in Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions (R. H. Groves and F. Di Castri, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 501 pp." year="1991">Cheylan, 1991</bibRefCitation>
);
<bibRefCitation id="D1C5DC6AF1099B1AAF88585540790B93" author="Corbet, G. B." refId="ref67548" refString="Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp." year="1978">
Corbet (1978
<emphasis id="3A1E0531579DC373BDA7811C01942585" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">c</emphasis>
:134)
</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="A2566B89E0F6750BF28FEE2DB8880EA6" author="Mezhzherin, S. V." refId="ref239573" refString="Mezhzherin, S. V. 1997 a. [Revision of mouse genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Muridae) of northern Eurasia.] Vestnik Zoologii, 31 (4): 29 - 41 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1997">Mezhzherin (1997a:35)</bibRefCitation>
mapped overall range. Absent from most of Iberian Peninsula and W
<collectingCountry id="E4BAFA821A55C4708E87FB14EB51C02F" name="France">France</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="57072AFBC9BD1D009182C64D71C4E300" name="Iceland">Iceland</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="A58958BFE12E69728494A5096B6D7027" name="Ireland">Ireland</collectingCountry>
, Balearic Isls, and islands of Sardinia,
<collectingCountry id="E1F6ED6A0FAC4D92696D71A4AFDBBB43" name="France">Corsica</collectingCountry>
, Sicily, and
<collectingCountry id="901A7437EFAB723174954FCB0F433CDE" name="Cyprus">Cyprus</collectingCountry>
; also does not occur in most of the Caucasus (except WArmenia) where it is apparently replaced by the closely related
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<emphasis id="C57D0A46967013933F810DE95E6A86D7" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. ponticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="93673B4C08324E605F8205C3B7995680" pageNumber="1265" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="9F0F570F94D9225ADDFB8C80E2BD10A9" pageNumber="1265">
<emphasis id="4895C57F0CB33394B9A4206C1DBFEF28" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Conservation:</emphasis>
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Lower Risk (lc) as
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<emphasis id="368FEE34905877F72490C509B35A7D2D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="35C0595C4CBA03AFB3DB67112D6D0B8C" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1881" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arianus">
<emphasis id="82F40229EC786BB179E7014FC25B84A2" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. arianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F33F912DCAAE8530DF58E68BB8CC7A5C" pageNumber="1265" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="63E526A1DAC80577E9802C1F3A93576D" pageNumber="1265">
<emphasis id="BF5E347D620D5EBF8EA6EBB2D9457F3C" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="D167C6BBF07AF098EF89B091392DEB39" pageNumber="1265">
<taxonomicName id="0DB0D1DE8115889C1019C216F85A60A7" authorityName="Ognev" authorityYear="1924" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Sylvaemus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="073BD495560CC60F02335C58FDD05642" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Sylvaemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group. Geographic variation of E European samples in the context of testing correlation between phenotypic and genotypic variations of certain morphological characters documented by
<bibRefCitation id="5A474B41D285A164A6A86291A574A5D6" author="Orlov, V. N. &amp; N. M. Okulova" refId="ref267433" refString="Orlov, V. N., and N. M. Okulova. 2001. [Application of the Hardy-Weinberg's equation for analysis of geographical variation of the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis (Muridae, Rodentia).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 80 (5): 607 - 617 (in Russian with English abstract)." year="2001">Orlov and Okulova (2001)</bibRefCitation>
. Additional research using a variety of data sources that provide comparative information among populations of
<taxonomicName id="1CCB44816146E64B6A37ADD29FFFF5AC" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="B5E58843547A5792F6FEDA1D1E6B8B1A" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are: B chromosome polymorphism among populations (
<bibRefCitation id="70623177CA2E3164813B9A6927C43B17" author="Vujosevic, M. &amp; J. Blagojevic &amp; J. Radosavljevic &amp; D. Bejakovic" refId="ref379529" refString="Vujosevic, M., J. Blagojevic, J. Radosavljevic, and D. Bejakovic. 1991. B chromosome polymorphism in populations of Apodemus flavicollis in Yugoslavia. Genetica, 83: 167 - 170." year="1991">Vujosevic et al., 1991</bibRefCitation>
), and presence or absence of B chromosomes and the attendant biological significance (Blagojevi and Vujoševi, 1995; Macholán and Zima, 1997;
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; Vujoševi and Blagojevi, 1995, 2000;
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Zima et al., 1999
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<emphasis id="CFFB8123F4040F81443FB8B9112A4A8B" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
, 2003
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); chromosomal morphologies of Macedonian (
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Zima et al., 1997
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) and Baltic (
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) samples; genetic variation in a fluctuating Polish population (Wójcik, 1993); and mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="5F3223DC4BCC734EDDC46364A94554EB" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
haplotype divergence among W European samples (
<bibRefCitation id="16A3FE0F4D99337DF8E5D0A7C5C19CD5" author="Reutter, B. A. &amp; E. Petit &amp; H. Brunner &amp; P. Vogel" refId="ref302963" refString="Reutter, B. A., E. Petit, H. Brunner, and P. Vogel. 2003. Cytochrome b haplotype divergences in West European Apodemus. Mammalian Biology, 68: 153 - 164." year="2003">Reutter et al., 2003</bibRefCitation>
). Phylogeographic history (using mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="51353124ACF416016E5DBE03F8E3B7B4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
sequences) of
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<emphasis id="2C36C7B88DD595FDBC9D1ED64C65E5CB" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Europe and the Near and Middle East in the context of determining Quaternary glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization events reported by
<bibRefCitation id="AF45768FF125997648BDD7601DFF4E92" author="Michaux, J. R. &amp; R. Libois &amp; E. Paradis &amp; M. - G. Filippucci" refId="ref241151" refString="Michaux, J. R., R. Libois, E. Paradis, and M. - G. Filippucci. 2004 b. Phylogeographic history of the yellow-necked fieldmouse Apodemus flavicollis) in Europe and in the Near and Middle East. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32: 788 - 798." year="2004">
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143C659E73B8556A44C173D182E728E2" pageNumber="1265">
Contrasts and similarities between
<taxonomicName id="9D74537FC35A3ECD99A8D94C70805B05" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="97878BF6E3911A7FF7D3AAAD66A0F119" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="5550A1428B9764D732E175EEE2177D2B" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sylvaticus">
<emphasis id="0A347B891415275F5577956626AEDFB9" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are available based upon: chromosomal morphology, allozymic variation, and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (
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<bibRefCitation id="0C8DB9F6B6991DC7014F35A510BE6967" author="Chelomina, G. N. &amp; M. V. Pavlenko &amp; I. V. Kartavtseva &amp; G. G. Boeskorov &amp; E. A. Lyapunova &amp; N. N. Vorontsov" refId="ref59156" refString="Chelomina, G. N., M. V. Pavlenko, I. V. Kartavtseva, G. G. Boeskorov, E. A. Lyapunova, and N. N. Vorontsov. 1998 a. [Genetic differentiation of Caucasian wood mice: Comparison of isozymic, chromosomal and molecular divergence.] Genetika, 34 (2): 213 - 225 (in Russian with English abstract)." year="1998">
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1981
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); morphometric analyses, in context of evolutionary divergence, morphometric identification, and habitat selection (
<bibRefCitation id="5F91BFA22AC4F097BD3752B3C90351D2" author="Amori, G. &amp; L. Contoli" refId="ref7519" refString="Amori, G., and L. Contoli. 1994. Morphotypic, craniometric and genotypic diversification in Apodemus flavicollis and Apodemus sylvaticus. Bollettino di Zoologia, 61: 353 - 357." year="1994">Amori and Contoli, 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4433721D47863E1819C2812A4957F5FE" author="Dolan, P. G. &amp; T. L. Yates" refId="ref87185" refString="Dolan, P. G., and T. L. Yates. 1981. Interspecific variation in Apodemus from the northern Adriatic islands of Yugoslavia. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 46: 151 - 161." year="1981">Dolan and Yates, 1981</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="E0A397C45CC2F4394DA689B3CC164D68" author="Feiler, A. &amp; B. Tegegn" refId="ref99102" refString="Feiler, A., and B. Tegegn. 1998. Zur innerartlichen variation und artabgrenzung bei Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834), A. sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758), A. agrarius (Pallas, 1771) und A. uralensis (Pallas, 1811) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae). Zoologische Abhandlungen (Dresden), 50 (1): 133 - 141." year="1998">Feiler and Tegegn, 1998</bibRefCitation>
; Fernendes et al., 1991;
<bibRefCitation id="219B4A16C798A4BA7A6B3ABFCE925340" author="Fielding, D. C." refId="ref100634" refString="Fielding, D. C. 1966. The identification of skulls of the two British species of Apodemus. Journal of Zoology, London, 150 (part 4): 498 - 500." year="1966">Fielding, 1966</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4199DD891B54B894507768AD716B8056" author="Hedges, S. R." refId="ref144884" refString="Hedges, S. R. 1969. Epigenetic polymorphism in populations of Apodemus sylvaticus and Apodemus flavicollis (Rodentia, Muridae). Journal of the Zoological Society of London, 159: 425 - 442." year="1969">Hedges, 1969</bibRefCitation>
; Kryštufek and Stojanovski, 1996;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="20FF388ECB9F1AE8A88AF4B46DDF5966" author="Nores, C." refId="ref262107" refString="Nores, C. 1988. Diferenciacion biometrica de Apodemus sylvaticus y Apodemus flavicollis en la Cordillera Cantabrica. Primeros resultados. Revista de Biologia de la Universidad de Oviedo, 6: 109 - 116." year="1988">Nores, 1988</bibRefCitation>
; Panzironi et al., 1993;
<bibRefCitation id="3726361F52CB463F4E79AABEC9A1F09F" author="Popov, V. V." refId="ref291699" refString="Popov, V. V. 1993. Discriminant criteria and comparative study on morphology and habitat selection of Apodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 46: 100 - 111." year="1993">Popov, 1993</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="3AC9CB5B097EA34266D8090AD31ED16D" author="Van der Straeten, E." refId="ref364175" refString="Van der Straeten, E. 1976 b. Maatgegevens van Apodemus sylvaticus (linnaeus, 1758) en Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) in Belgie. Lutra, 18: 15 - 21." year="1976">
Van der Straeten, 1976
<emphasis id="6E0EA2AEAB85F0DAE8FD986BF634FED1" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5269019EE3037A7023A425CC970881BC" author="Van der Straeten, E. &amp; B. Van der Straeten-Harrie" refId="ref364836" refString="Van der Straeten, E., and B. Van der Straeten-Harrie. 1977. Etude de la biometrie cranienne et de la repartition d'Apodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) et d'Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) en Belgique. Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia, 69: 169 - 182." year="1977">Van der Straeten and Van der Straeten-Harrie, 1977</bibRefCitation>
); dental variation (Filippucci et al., 1996; Tvrtkovi, 1976); temporal variation of non-metric traits (Sádlová and
<bibRefCitation id="951AD376ECFA877355D9E61587730B59" author="Frynta, D. &amp; P. Mikulova &amp; E. Suchomelova &amp; J. Sadlova" refId="ref110234" refString="Frynta, D., P. Mikulova, E. Suchomelova, and J. Sadlova. 2001. Discriminant analysis of morphometric characters in four species of Apodemus (Muridae: Rodentia) from eastern Turkey and Iran. Israel Journal of Zoology, 47: 243 - 258." year="2001">Frynta, 2001</bibRefCitation>
); and habitat in
<collectingCountry id="653A424FF161A491A3D5342AF61AB95B" name="Norway">Norway</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="0B49F9520FD4A750CDF0492D7C7AA91B" author="Lura, H. &amp; G. Langhelle &amp; T. Fredriksen &amp; I. Byrkjedal" refId="ref218152" refString="Lura, H., G. Langhelle, T. Fredriksen, and I. Byrkjedal. 1995. Distribution of the field mice Apodemus flavicollis and A. sylvaticus in Norway. Fauna of Norway, Series A, 16: 1 - 10." year="1995">Lura et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
). Differences in blood serum proteins between
<taxonomicName id="667B23D62013254A7F0CEC0FBEBD4804" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="0F20BC1E5FE73E5757A5578357F68F0A" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D8A2BC1D2A6E7CB5EA10F04B02516F34" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="witherbyi">
<emphasis id="21E8B6FFDB6DFBA37EDCF25EE5591339" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(reported as
<taxonomicName id="73D9C83225388C3CBC0CFBF453B3DBFC" authorityName="Filippucci, Simson, and Nevo" authorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hermonensis">
<emphasis id="208FB9D37CD265A3884782DFF01851AC" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">hermonensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) documented by Verimli et al. (2000). Based on allozyme and chromosome data,
<bibRefCitation id="FBE1BBFD1E64217648E48E612E3B2F29" author="Orlov, V. N. &amp; N. Sh. Bulatova &amp; R. S. Nadjafova &amp; A. I. Kozlovsky" refId="ref267665" refString="Orlov, V. N., N. Sh. Bulatova, R. S. Nadjafova, and A. I. Kozlovsky. 1996 a. Evolutionary classification of European wood mice of the subgenus Sylvaemus based on allozyme and chromosome data. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 46 (1 - 4): 191 - 202." year="1996">
Orlov et al. (1996
<emphasis id="5CF042B821D3F75590AE30097ECF8547" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
,
<emphasis id="1D557FF51188448360E16136EB72D138" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
) placed
<taxonomicName id="98AEAE1982DCFB551510CAA60AC4B3FC" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="C4E577509CFB48E862541692F27EDDD9" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="F415A96F4A4F81B83C0370D104C91D2B" authorityName="Sviridenko" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ponticus">
<emphasis id="C6D982CA885F0B7C2D9C6DFCC947800D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. ponticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the superspecies
<taxonomicName id="769E7747762A12DCCAD87523E984FA3F" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="33C514BD7990F2EFE5473AFE60355DB7" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The species was a part of Mezhzherins (1997
<emphasis id="88804872DAAE0D73ABB81F890BF47B27" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
) revision of N Eurasian
<taxonomicName id="3C676A68F476BAF9B2524E3170289E3D" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="06927FA9DA0DDB6EE6FDC28E6ED17E90" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
based upon morphology and molecular data.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462730B972C5E1AEB1D198B7A1CB3FE9" pageNumber="1265">
The inclusion of
<taxonomicName id="E99AF9EC3BEA943E2AA9A9380E4188C8" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1881" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arianus">
<emphasis id="E1DA1422B390653ACD4032D04B16ECCD" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">arianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, along with
<taxonomicName id="ED2B18A0652CD61F99ABFDE94B2AF136" baseAuthorityName="Blanford" baseAuthorityYear="1875" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythronotus">
<emphasis id="14F713DFCBD837DDA2982CA4861AA136" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">erythronotus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(the name
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<emphasis id="E4FCB9B6C11169F4699AA6613F24D731" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">arianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
replaced; see Kryštufek, 2000), in the above synonymy follows Kryštufeks (2002
<emphasis id="F76A5D5110C40B3D5321A9B8EB5478DE" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
) identification of the
<typeStatus id="EF9841B1AA1129539DF07A1EB1E7A9A3">holotype</typeStatus>
.
<bibRefCitation id="4C1B5F071BA4ECA169CAC5A208C81EB3" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton (1993)</bibRefCitation>
had used
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<emphasis id="853CFE04EDF5E190ACB4FB68538DB159" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">arianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the oldest name for the species we now list as
<taxonomicName id="F3C11621F9E9AD8D2A4033AF5DB8C518" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="witherbyi">
<emphasis id="F59C87543AB521CF4DA6A0D27F59D267" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see that account). The taxon
<taxonomicName id="6C09BE827E60BA556990C46E46523056" authorityName="Martino and Martino" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="89953ACBD912C47942C9D0C2AB17C601" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, described by
<bibRefCitation id="4C64A01C9366510A80F2C838A89BB0FC" author="Martino, E. &amp; V. Martino" refId="ref228040" refString="Martino, E., and V. Martino. 1937. Preliminary note on four new rodents from Korab Mountains. Annual Magazine of Natural History, 19 (sec. 19): 515 - 518." year="1937">Martino and Martino (1937)</bibRefCitation>
as a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="D4EBB79A255BDBF4E0AAC5DB912546D5" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sylvaticus">
<emphasis id="2AE61CA770BD04A299D81DAD9AE88C1A" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Korab Mtns of W
<collectingCountry id="741A3A9B5C4150314AAE2BDD4A9827DD" name="Macedonia">Macedonia</collectingCountry>
, was treated as an endemic Balkan species by
<bibRefCitation id="C12D759D02F107B3CCC6A41361A219C7" author="Petrov, B. M." refId="ref283192" refString="Petrov, B. M. 1993 / 94. Apodemus stankovici V. and E. Martino, 1937, new ideas on the taxonomic status of some rodent species in the former and actual Yugoslavia. Bulletin of Natural History Museum, Belgrade, B 48: 183 - 188." year="1993">Petrov (1993</bibRefCitation>
/94), who considered
<taxonomicName id="DE31E73D4051CD9480120C6793309DB2" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="E04A8C5E510DF544621266E18A1E362C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="7B5A1CD3E6EC5D367D988ED17005E309" authorityName="Martino and Martino" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="A1AEA519A940DE2E73B085836D36AB79" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be narrowly sympatric but found in different habitats. In Petrovs view, the range of
<taxonomicName id="4F341FD32BD5596CFC180672CFC339BE" authorityName="Martino and Martino" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="47489D96EB1C3EF75438B9603A984211" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
would be concordant with other mammalian Balkan relicts, such as the vole,
<taxonomicName id="0A817E5B5BB2EB889ECF6E858F084BD2" baseAuthorityName="Martino" baseAuthorityYear="1922" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" genus="Dinaromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bogdanovi">
<emphasis id="16892213CE4FEBC999C490D174A2E1F4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Dinaromys bogdanovi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the mole,
<taxonomicName id="73DD0A15E2019FE0D4B56822E4288055" authorityName="V. Martino &amp; E. Martino" authorityYear="1931" class="Mammalia" family="Talpidae" genus="Talpa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="00428E351536B4E583CF664D3DBFF8ED" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Talpa stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, morphometric analysis of SW Balkan samples of
<taxonomicName id="2FA6ECEF1022C3B9C72E2AD6BF60FECD" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="FB990013E5E46F2B1C209560D591FF03" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="F0F541CA72AB7F8F3856BC1BC15FAEB3" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sylvaticus">
<emphasis id="098F78C0449A011C16D238257C63AC98" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
along with the
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and
<typeStatus id="8C8E99B37397C9877E3E0AAEFFE55CE4">paratypes</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="071E04E3BD2978394FD16D4B982D6EA1" authorityName="V. Martino &amp; E. Martino" authorityYear="1931" class="Mammalia" family="Talpidae" genus="Talpa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="5534A21FFEFD4D09D4A6957960734C88" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by Kryštufek and Stojanovski (1996) demonstrated the conspecificity of the latter with
<taxonomicName id="631F8E5D330817968427D75F428DD3EA" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="94D85CC521C26E6E5F1C678366D5C5F8" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. There may be another species (in addition to
<taxonomicName id="AC5CCEAAE68BD506F9CA588D1541FBBA" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="48CBEC2DE4A1C5C0F1EDC94E57E1128D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="BC0ABA9D27DE620113276C0CA3F0400C" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sylvaticus">
<emphasis id="B47E729FD2BABB04A9F5E9853585D749" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in the SW Balkan Mtns, but it is not
<taxonomicName id="5BDB5D7318AAC5D10B468F35467ABE4E" authorityName="V. Martino &amp; E. Martino" authorityYear="1931" class="Mammalia" family="Talpidae" genus="Talpa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Soricomorpha" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stankovici">
<emphasis id="77177175D7CAF51B3DA8979C47E9BF50" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">stankovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(B. Kryštufek, 2002, in litt.).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="78C92DA6C4D6008B37925FE6BB360934" pageNumber="1265">
Bates (1942
<emphasis id="7A872BC4D12A0626078E32797F7870A9" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
)
<taxonomicName id="818357310F03BA60E01285123E393DB0" authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="levantinus">
<emphasis id="F5DA71D896D13EF363A47FC879E03FB7" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">levantinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, based upon Palaeolithic specimens from
<collectingCountry id="6D7ACD8470BDC26DA7C4E0C5BD700633" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
and described as a species morphologically similar to
<taxonomicName id="E9ACCD5D3C29952BD0847A1922116E06" authorityName="Melchior" authorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="22F9E0BF0BE14819DDC94D5EFCECDBBD" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see expanded description in
<bibRefCitation id="BC7016B3EE8429FE87B71E4473CEB7FF" author="Tchernov, E." refId="ref349408" refString="Tchernov, E. 1968. Succession of rodent faunas during the Upper Pleistocene of Israel. Mammalia Depicta, 3: 152 pp." year="1968">Tchernov, 1968</bibRefCitation>
), is now regarded as synonymous with
<taxonomicName id="F3BCE05982E0D1FEBE7144E32086329E" authority="(Tchernov, 1986)" baseAuthorityName="Tchernov" baseAuthorityYear="1986" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="EB66C1F7044D56C847E70433EB2F93EE" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="237CF6036699F7C085BF1E66BC362479" author="Tchernov, E." refId="ref349470" refString="Tchernov, E. 1986. The rodents and lagomorphs from ' Ubeidiya Formation: Systematics, paleoecology and biogeography. Pp. 235 - 350, in Les mammiferes du Pleistocene Inferieur de la Vallee du Jourdain a Oubeidiyeh (E. Tchernov, ed.). Memoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem, 5: 1 - 405." year="1986">Tchernov, 1986</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and documents the evolutionary history of the species, which now lives in
<collectingCountry id="05233845F5AF5CB24281AEF9ED379030" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
, back to early Pleistocene in that country (see also
<bibRefCitation id="DCD9936A7A1A474F08898401D00D6FD4" author="Tchernov, E." refId="ref349675" refString="Tchernov, E. 1996. Rodent faunas, chronostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the southern Levant during the Quaternary. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 39 (1): 513 - 530." year="1996">Tchernov, 1996</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="47B19A10DA0991567BE8A160DEC6D00E" pageNumber="1265">
European populations reviewed by
<bibRefCitation id="8A576C76D4CFA8389D613E2914E329F0" author="Niethammer, J." refId="ref259710" refString="Niethammer, J. 1978 b. Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) -- Gelbhalsmaus. Pp. 325 - 336, in Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (Wiesbaden), 1: 1 - 476." year="1978">
Niethammer (1978
<emphasis id="072A6B12F3B9801161B5814E2DABFFA2" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="639EDE7993CDDEB24C617CF29805FE7F" author="Mitchell-Jones, A. J. &amp; G. Amori &amp; W. Bogdanowicz &amp; B. Krystufek &amp; P. J. H. Reijnders &amp; F. Spitzenberger &amp; M. Stubbe &amp; J. B. M. Thissen &amp; V. Vohralik &amp; J. Zima" refId="ref243793" refString="Mitchell-Jones, A. J., G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek, P. J. H. Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, J. B. M. Thissen, V. Vohralik, and J. Zima. 1999. Atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, 496 pp." year="1999">Mitchell-Jones et al. (1999)</bibRefCitation>
. Among the numerous regional reports detailing geographic range, taxonomy, habitat, and other biological aspects of
<taxonomicName id="C28979F0577DACA4B5AB744573148B7C" baseAuthorityName="Tchernov" baseAuthorityYear="1986" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="4894D59A04349D779954349CA982D2D4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are the following more recent contributions for:
<collectingCountry id="BBCF12C1C710F743C4471EE56A3F0208" name="Norway">Norway</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="3DC580662B9C62E91C8F7B771CE6CB8F" author="Lura, H. &amp; G. Langhelle &amp; T. Fredriksen &amp; I. Byrkjedal" refId="ref218152" refString="Lura, H., G. Langhelle, T. Fredriksen, and I. Byrkjedal. 1995. Distribution of the field mice Apodemus flavicollis and A. sylvaticus in Norway. Fauna of Norway, Series A, 16: 1 - 10." year="1995">Lura et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="467F6DFD4DDE3BBA3CFBBEE0DEEFA67F" name="Netherlands">Netherlands</collectingCountry>
, where the species is known only from the southern tip (
<bibRefCitation id="0CD555E81660FCADF4DFB08218ED1831" author="Bergers, P. J. M. &amp; R. P. B. Foppen" refId="ref28069" refString="Bergers, P. J. M., and R. P. B. Foppen. 1992. Grote bosmuis, Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834). Pp. 286 - 288, in Atlas van de Nederlandse Zoogdieren (S. Broekhuizen, B. Hoekstra, V. van Laar, C. Smeenk, and J. B. M. Thissen, eds.). Stichting Uitgeverij Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, Utrecht, 336 pp." year="1992">Bergers and Foppen, 1992</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="CB5A3D4822EF363DBF4E7F9E5C3F4DDC" author="Thissen, J. B. M. &amp; H. Hollander" refId="ref351178" refString="Thissen, J. B. M., and H. Hollander. 1996. Mammals in the Netherlands. Hystrix, n. s., 8 (1 - 2): 97 - 105." year="1996">Thissen and Hollander, 1996</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="8C1420B8234EABD646D226445ECDF314" name="Belgium">Belgium</collectingCountry>
(Libois, 1996;
<bibRefCitation id="94655687BAA2A1AEC5FCF0E842E9D2AF" author="Van der Straeten, E." refId="ref364175" refString="Van der Straeten, E. 1976 b. Maatgegevens van Apodemus sylvaticus (linnaeus, 1758) en Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) in Belgie. Lutra, 18: 15 - 21." year="1976">
Van der Straeten, 1976
<emphasis id="FB2FF28D079A8AD303A0AD45878257B5" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="BA3962B483AF5E394990635124C35D7B" name="Germany">Germany</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C00F91035933038E8BE689319B30BC11" author="Alf, R. &amp; A. Hille &amp; G. Kneitz" refId="ref4227" refString="Alf, R., A. Hille, and G. Kneitz. 1997. Genetische populationsstruktur von gelbhalsmausen, Apodemus flavicollis, in einer intensive genutzten agrarlandschaft im ostlichen Westfalen. Abhandlungen aus dem Westalischen Museum fur Naturkunde, 59 (3): 117 - 134." year="1997">Alf et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="504F3DF8935BBFC14E168C7E684ED614" author="Berger, M. &amp; R. Feldmann" refId="ref27994" refString="Berger, M., and R. Feldmann. 1997. Die ausbreitung der gelbhalsmaus, Apodemus flavicollis, in Munsterland. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfalischen Museum fur Naturkunde, 59 (3): 135 - 142." year="1997">Berger and Feldmann, 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="34ADBBB9C34CDCD15289E33DB9956543" author="Dolch, D. &amp; R. Labes &amp; J. Teubner" refId="ref87223" refString="Dolch, D., R. Labes, and J. Teubner. 1994. Beitrage zur Saugetierfauna der Prignitz. Veroffentlichung Potsdam-Museum 31, Beitrage zur Tierwelt der Mark XII, S.: 33 - 68." year="1994">Dolch et al. 1994</bibRefCitation>
; Niedenführ and Rathke, 1996);
<collectingCountry id="42F382AF9FA8381D31AB3463D763E6FF" name="Austria">Austria</collectingCountry>
(Bauer and Spitzenberger, 1969);
<collectingCountry id="AC6A562E4C9F903C4C0B3445C02B93A6" name="Switzerland">Switzerland</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="6C6BABAD4A25202B1CF258A637C25702" author="Hausser, J." refId="ref142872" refString="Hausser, J. 1995. Saugetiere der Schweiz. Verbreitung. Biologie. Okologie. Birkhauser Verlag: Basel, 501 pp." year="1995">Hausser, 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="DB2FA7A2F6574713923F1F181EE114BA" author="Maurizio, R." refId="ref231876" refString="Maurizio, R. 1994. I piccoli mammiferi (Mammalia: Insectivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Carnivora) della Bregaglia (Grigioni, Svizzera). Il Naturalista Valtellinese-Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Morbegno, 5: 91 - 138." year="1994">Maurizio, 1994</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="FCB7FD800F88B45C9B5090B441072433" name="Slovakia">Slovakia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A4CF40EF594CDF662B33F9BCBD63FB9A" author="Danko, S." refId="ref73434" refString="Danko, S. 1994. [Small mammals of the protected landscape area East Carpathians]. Zbornik Vychodoslovenskeho Muzea v Kosiciah, Prirodne Vedy, 35: 63 - 76 (in Czech with English summary)." year="1994">Danko, 1994</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="905517414E278C028EB87AC1C3303F24" author="Kminiak, M." refId="ref189609" refString="Kminiak, M. 1996. Faunistic notes on small mammals fauna in the region of Oravska Magura Mountains (subregion Kubinska hol'a, Northern Slovakia). Lynx (Praha), n. s., 27: 13 - 24 (in Czech with English abstract)." year="1996">Kminiak, 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Mošanský, 1994;
<bibRefCitation id="1A52C2B954E151736B23E2809821A4E6" author="Stanko, M." refId="ref338772" refString="Stanko, M. 1995. [Synusia of small ground mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) of the Biosphere Reserve East Carpathians.] Natura Carpatica, 36: 119 - 126 (in Czech with English summary)." year="1995">Stanko, 1995</bibRefCitation>
; Stanko and
<bibRefCitation id="0ECC5854AF74A4F359D1AB0A9FB438EC" author="Mosansky, A." refId="ref247978" refString="Mosansky, A. 1994. Teriofauna Vychodneho Slovenska a katalog mamaliologickych zbierok Vychodoslovenskeho Muzea [The mammalian fauna of East Slovakia and the Catalogue of Mammaliological collections of the Eastslovakian Museum. Part VI (Rodentia 3)]. Zbornik Vychodoslovenskeho Muzea v Kosiciach, Prirodne, 35: 113 - 150 (in Czech with English summary)." year="1994">Mosansky, 1994</bibRefCitation>
, 2000; Stanko et al., 1994, 2000);
<collectingCountry id="33D2B9A9FF5AC03DE7D7F94C39917364" name="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</collectingCountry>
(And<6E>ra and ervený, 1994; Šmaha, 1996; Zima and And<6E>ra, 1996); Translvanian
<collectingCountry id="B5E5DD1A86F491E2FFEA347AFBE1C7F7" name="Romania">Romania</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="7B5982B280F77CF2D4DAF2E885F7B3D5" author="Istrate, P." refId="ref169253" refString="Istrate, P. 1998. Les petits mammiferes du plateau Tarnava, Transylvanie (Roumanie). Travaux du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle &quot; Grigore Antipa &quot;, 40: 449 - 474." year="1998">Istrate, 1998</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="C0AB536AA02D6C7A19D42F2DE6D94669" name="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="8A3F84B788C88F98CABEC9246FE7CC9A" author="Chassovnikarova, T. &amp; G. Markov" refId="ref58483" refString="Chassovnikarova, T., and G. Markov. 1999. [The yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis, Melch., 1834) in Bulgaria: Biotopic adherence and epigenetic variability]. Forest Science, 36 (3 - 4): 89 - 96 (in Bulgarian with English abstract)." year="1999">Chassovnikarova and Markov, 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6223F9B33AE0804BC528E9D26C677411" author="Peshev, D." refId="ref281361" refString="Peshev, D. 1996. Review of the status of mammals in Bulgaria. Hystrix, n. s., 8 (1 - 2): 55 - 59." year="1996">Peshev, 1996</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="0692D76BBC5208480DC26B5EBA406E69" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="705C910035F9F7457BBFFF19FF9B102C" author="Amori, G. &amp; F. M. Angelici &amp; L. Boitani" refId="ref7666" refString="Amori, G., F. M. Angelici, and L. Boitani. 1999. Mammals of Italy: A revised checklist of species and subspecies (Mammalia). Senckenbergiana biologica, 79 (2): 271 - 286." year="1999">Amori et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
,
<emphasis id="97A8528C34C2537B804899DDF3978FB4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">
<bibRefCitation id="65488AC889657EEED9613359B074919A" author="Amori, G. &amp; L. Corsetti &amp; C. Esposito" refId="ref7711" refString="Amori, G., L. Corsetti, and C. Esposito. 2002 a. Mammiferi dei Monti Lepini. Quaderni di Conservazione della Natura, 11: 1 - 210." year="2002">2002a</bibRefCitation>
, b
</emphasis>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F56B570F703CBEC7BFF6E880D16D7C2A" author="Cagnin, M. &amp; G. Aloise &amp; G. Garofalo &amp; C. Milazzo &amp; M. Cristaldi" refId="ref48921" refString="Cagnin, M., G. Aloise, G. Garofalo, C. Milazzo, and M. Cristaldi. 1996. Les communautes de petits mammiferes terrestres de trois-Fiumare-de la Calabre (Italie du Sud). Vie Milieu, 46 (3 / 4): 319 - 326." year="1996">Cagnin et al., 1996</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5F3334E7F50E3B628691871D3B1245C3" author="Cantini, M." refId="ref50147" refString="Cantini, M. 1991. Comunita di piccoli Mammiferi (Mammalia: Insectivora, Rodentia, Carnivora) nell'Alto Lario Orientale (Lombardia, Italia) e valutazioni della qualita ambientale. Il Naturalista Valtellinese-Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Morbegno, 2: 71 - 98." year="1991">Cantini, 1991</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A114B278FA2FDD41A2AAFD4290E52DF6" author="Cerone, G. &amp; G. Aloise" refId="ref55546" refString="Cerone, G., and G. Aloise. 1994. La fauna a micromammiferi del comprensorio di Muro Lucano (Potenza, Italia). Hystrix, n. s., 5 (1 - 2) (1993): 110 - 115." year="1994">Cerone and Aloise, 1994</bibRefCitation>
; Cresti et al., 1992;
<bibRefCitation id="E836572220262689A7E713F8BCCFBF17" author="Locatelli, R. &amp; P. Paolucci" refId="ref215239" refString="Locatelli, R., and P. Paolucci. 1996 a. Micromammiferi della foresta demaniale de Cadino. Natura Alpina, 46 (4): 1 - 68." year="1996">
Locatelli and Paolucci, 1996
<emphasis id="E0C74B97543776209C09F3E36FF4F25C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
); E Baltic region (
<bibRefCitation id="B2CB0A73B89CE33978AA6E8B1398863A" author="Miljutin, A." refId="ref241590" refString="Miljutin, A. 1997. Ecomorphology of the Baltic rodents: Body form, ecological strategies and adaptive evolution. Folia Theriologica Estonica, 3: 1 - 111." year="1997">Miljutin, 1997</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="B14FB5D19E721CE9D5D46640A32C20A4" author="Miljutin, A." refId="ref241621" refString="Miljutin, A. 1998. Ecological strategies of the Baltic rodents. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B, 52 (1 / 2): 20 - 30." year="1998">1998</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="CA5CB2097DD680481872FC38C1B3368C" author="Timm, U. &amp; V. Pilats &amp; L. Balciauskas" refId="ref356772" refString="Timm, U., V. Pilats, and L. Balciauskas. 1998. Mammals of the East Baltic. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B, 52 (594 / 595): 1 - 9." year="1998">Timm et al., 1998</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="52CBB250305D636A29AC68B13F223978" name="Lithuania">Lithuania</collectingCountry>
(Juškaitis and Baranauskas, 2001);
<collectingCountry id="A987C9CAA591A451B5B401B7ED430140" name="Serbia">Serbia and Montenegro</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C4CBCD26D1832FD3C444CA8612AF5C58" author="Petrov, B. M." refId="ref283163" refString="Petrov, B. M. 1992. Mammals of Yugoslavia. Insectivores and rodents. Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Supplement 37: 1 - 186." year="1992">Petrov, 1992</bibRefCitation>
);
<collectingCountry id="B001D649C161C444DBABBFA8CC9DCD76" name="Slovenia">Slovenia</collectingCountry>
(Kryštufek, 1991);
<collectingCountry id="481ED5C8F1B7855788AFD588F02A0A72" name="Albania">Albania</collectingCountry>
(Prigioni, 1969); SE
<collectingCountry id="33BA32C90D066C960C1CCB1F8D8EF2CD" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
(Thrace; Vohralík, 1992);
<collectingCountry id="43EEA27E3FCF1655AB31DF2EE344279C" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
(Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001);
<collectingCountry id="10EB702B93693FF41D2FCFC8D5720C2C" name="Armenia">Armenia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="044B18439C913478CE4B34D3DDB91C8F" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; M. A. Erbajeva" refId="ref130294" refString="Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp." year="1995">Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995</bibRefCitation>
); and
<collectingCountry id="7732C74D34424F76E7CF06C367897B4D" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
(Qumsiyeh, 1966).
<collectionCode id="18A4DBB387FA056C8890ECBA1E2A0FD8" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
369845, a young adult from
<collectingRegion id="810A0250C167F00F21B15233CD1B3063" country="Iran" name="Kordestan">Kordestan Province</collectingRegion>
(near Marivan), Zagros Mtns, is one of the few records of
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<emphasis id="E3DEA07C302020F996519D7148921BC4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="1F3D910E7FE7F6BAE0581F9AFF475593" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
, where the species has been recorded only in the Zagros Mtns. It was taken at the same place on the day before
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369846, an
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<emphasis id="A15C99151AAC2AB519C469E510689633" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, was collected. The two species in
<collectingCountry id="24F7A511CD8ECD47A9B55B3CABD1391A" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
are regularly misidentified in museum collections. Iranian
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<emphasis id="BE13D564DAF1D7723F4D1432545C47E9" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has paler dorsal pelage than Turkish samples, whitish gray underparts (white in
<taxonomicName id="F16A4B1F3013FF3AAE0BB96802C917A3" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="witherbyi">
<emphasis id="5DF28104AA5B663AF7B874FF6E228F1D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), a round pectoral patch (streak in
<taxonomicName id="F2177A196C5BB304EE3276B80FB44829" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="witherbyi">
<emphasis id="D1610F9F4F0CB8B1C3F5C1C6A7A37F83" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), molar occlusal patterns that are typical of Turkish
<taxonomicName id="FCE13F3B430BC828D95994EA7E2AC0A1" authority="(Filippucci et al., 1996)" baseAuthorityName="Filippucci" baseAuthorityYear="1996" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavicollis">
<emphasis id="0E785646C9CB2407B88ABD91AD980604" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
(Filippucci et al., 1996)
</taxonomicName>
, M1-3 length = 4.2 mm (usually less than 4.0 in
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<emphasis id="07B1A8D980709F4224DF8B0FA665F072" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and large bullae (5.2 mm; 4.2-4.8 mm in
<collectionCode id="523AA1BD5F3D6DF400FD788A518A35CE" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
Iranian
<taxonomicName id="8FC3126E9CA072648EB589E103ADDB1A" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="witherbyi">
<emphasis id="D1E09DF147E01088DB473F162077F85F" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. witherbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, usually 4.5 mm).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="338B3EEB330C6FF9031569D671A1F969" pageNumber="1265">
From 1948 (following Heptner, 1948) until
<bibRefCitation id="74AC3839B2635A30E6DE1804C08E9E36" author="International Union for the Conservation of Nature &amp; Natural Resources" refId="ref168783" refString="International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1990. 1990 IUCN red list of threatened animals. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 228 pp." year="1990">the 1990</bibRefCitation>
s, some authors (e. g.,
<bibRefCitation id="3880A75630AD4BB1D2E9DFBD7C6A746D" author="Ondrias, J. C." refId="ref266903" refString="Ondrias, J. C. 1966. The taxonomy and geographical distribution of the rodents of Greece. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 14, sonderheft, 1: 1 - 136." year="1966">Ondrias, 1966</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFD6318BA9AA2DD2E44C37C2DD0C2555" author="Fedorchenko, A. A. &amp; I. V. Zagorodnyuk" refId="ref98516" refString="Fedorchenko, A. A., and I. V. Zagorodnyuk. 1994. [Mice of the genus Sylvaemus from the Lower Danube Region. Communication 2. Distribution and abundance]. Vestnick Zoologii, 1994 (4 - 5): 55 - 64 (in Russian with English abstract)." year="1994">Fedorchenko and Zagorodnyuk, 1994</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="B6F871F3D6F9C664A17AFD6F7F71A7BC" author="Mezhzherin, S. V." refId="ref239573" refString="Mezhzherin, S. V. 1997 a. [Revision of mouse genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Muridae) of northern Eurasia.] Vestnik Zoologii, 31 (4): 29 - 41 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1997">
Mezhzherin, 1997
<emphasis id="A7ECB5059680D43092128C450F416C96" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
) have substituted the earlier
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<emphasis id="1832F7B342784194071ED69FDD2A1B9D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">tauricus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="08103C250C1A61472AD1528D183DFD50" author="Pallas, P. S." refId="ref271664" refString="Pallas, P. S. 1811 [1831]. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium Animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicillia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. [ICZN Opinion 212 -- dates of volumes: 1 &amp; 2: 1811; 3: 1814]. Petropoli, in officina Caes. acadamiae scientiarum. 3 vol. [official date of publ for vol 1 - 1811 impress], 1: 1 - 568." year="1811">Pallas, 1811</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(type locality is mountains of Crimea), for
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<emphasis id="8DD29B9C8F934300C3D99BE26F94C036" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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, however, explained that
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<emphasis id="E8FFA4DE7C86E76A6F999DBCC29FECC4" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">flavicollis</emphasis>
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&quot;preponderates in the very extensive ecological literature on the species. It therefore seems desirable to retain the name
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<emphasis id="36932A91C573BDA1220EB34AF8152CFC" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">flavicollis</emphasis>
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, and the inadequacy of the original description of
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<emphasis id="9903ACA58FC3CC32B055548F4288C663" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">tauricus</emphasis>
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, which amounts only to multo major et elegantissimi velleris (relative to
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<emphasis id="D8243892FFB151185B6043AA42FAE1AE" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
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), would seem to justify its rejection as not certainly determinable.&quot;
<bibRefCitation id="C3C90BB7CE451AB8D08CB3B2C6FE9047" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya. &amp; O. L. Rossolimo" refId="ref277815" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian)." year="1987">Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987)</bibRefCitation>
listed
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<emphasis id="93E9DC7ACED149D94AEEE3FEC4952F79" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">tauricus</emphasis>
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as
<emphasis id="C64F73AEC54D6209B47CCEF7F0424BCF" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">nomen oblitum</emphasis>
and
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Pavlinov et al. (1995
<emphasis id="B9228AB6C9ACEB7949EEDD1EC8053D7A" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
)
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treated it the same way but with a question. Kryštufek (2002
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) countered by demonstrating that
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<emphasis id="B24FAC2BFDD5465007768D12D529699B" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">tauricus</emphasis>
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has been used as a senior synonym of
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<emphasis id="B695CECEAE9DC194AD55AD86A17B6802" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">flavicollis</emphasis>
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after 1899 (thus invalidating its status as a
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), that
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<emphasis id="DC4F2814889FFB022B5334CCC5027594" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">flavicollis</emphasis>
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is the only
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<emphasis id="4762C9B3B4B38F06F4FB8BECB4684A04" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
found in the Crimean Mtns (which negates Corbets concern), and that
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<emphasis id="7C07933C5CB8FF23913BEED55BF728C0" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">tauricus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is potentially valid for replacing
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<emphasis id="E507858F1BC3025978292D07265143E1" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">flavicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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Zagorodnyuk (1992
<emphasis id="CA0BBC41629194E36D7467177D93950D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
:45)
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offered &quot;
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<emphasis id="95D2DB1415625D5C0E245B883C920FF0" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Sylvaemus taurica</emphasis>
(Pall.)
</taxonomicName>
&quot; as a new combination. The nomenclatural issue requires resolution
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.
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