Ellobius lutescens Thomas, 1897

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 : 512

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Ellobius lutescens Thomas, 1897 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20:308.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Kurdistan, Van .

DISTRIBUTION: From S Caucasus Mtns south through E Turkey and NW Iran.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Afganomys . Treated by Corbet (1978c) as a synonym of E. fuscocapillus but now shown to be a distinct species ( Corbet, 1984; Vorontsov et al., 1980, and references therein), as earlier listed by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). This is a species with a low diploid number (17) and an unusual mode of sex determination, which has been the subject of the many reports reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a), as well as current inquiry ( Vogel et al., 1988, and references therein).