Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 571

Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) . Dansk. Staat. Norg. Pattedyr, p. 99.

TYPE LOCALITY: Denmark, Sieland Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: England and Wales, from NW Spain, France, Denmark, S Scandinavia through European Russia to Urals, S Italy, the Balkans, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel ( Corbet, 1978c:134); also Netherlands ( Van der Straeten, 1977).

SYNONYMS: brauneri, cellarius , dietzi, fennicus, geminae, princeps , saturatus , wintoni.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus . B chromosome polymorphism among populations reported by Vujosevic et al. (1991). European populations reviewed by Niethammer (1978b). Syrian, Lebanese, and Israeli populations should be re-examined to see if they represent A. fulvipectus , or another species, rather than A. flavicollis .