Calomyscus bailwardi Thomas, 1905

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 528

Calomyscus bailwardi Thomas, 1905

Calomyscus bailwardi Thomas, 1905: 525 .

COMMON NAME. — Zagros Mountains Brush-tailed Mouse.

HOLOTYPE. — Not traced.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Khuzestan Province, Zagros Mountains, 120 km South East of Ahvaz, Izeh.

DISTRIBUTION. — Zagros Mountains (Kurdistan, Ilam, Lorestan, Fars, West of Esfahan, East of Khuzestan, Hormozgan, and West of Kerman Provinces ( Morshed & Patton 2002; Karami et al. 2008; Ziaie 2008). Moreover, it may occur in Gaziantep and Hakkari Provinces of Turkey ( Kryštufek & Vohralík 2009) but no specimens are available for confirmation. Hence, actual range has yet to be defined.

HABITAT. — Relatively little is known about its ecology. It is commonly found in forests at intermediate altitudes under evergreens as well as on barren, dry and rocky mountainsides with little vegetation. It favors mountain steppe regions between 400 and 3500 m, and is typically absent from low valleys. Moreover, it favors crevices between stone walls and embankments in small fields and terraced cultivation. In these crevices nests made of woven grass, wool, and other various soft materials have been found ( Lay 1967; Grzimek et al. 2004).

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCES. — Thomas (1905); Ellerman (1961); Lay, (1967); Morshed & Patton (2002); Grzimek et al. (2004); Karami et al. (2008); Ziaie (2008); Kryštufek & Vohralík (2009).

REMARK

All Iranian samples from Khuzestan, Fars, Khorasan, Esfahan, Tehran, and Semnan Provinces belonging to several distinct species were listed under C. bailwardi by Lay (1967) as Calomyscus was considered to be monotypic ( Ellerman 1961).