Apodemus arianus (Blandord, 1881)

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 : 570

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scientific name	Apodemus arianus (Blandord, 1881)
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Apodemus arianus (Blandord, 1881) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 7:162.

TYPE LOCALITY: N Persia ( Iran), Kohrud .

DISTRIBUTION: From N Iran west through Iraq to Lebanon and N Israel (see Harrison and Bates, 1991); limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: erythronotus , witherbyi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus . Usually listed as a subspecies of A. sylvaticus ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: Harrison and Bates, 1991), we separate it on the basis of its distinctive pelage and smaller body size. Both arianus and a larger, darker form (possibly wardi ) occur in N Iran, although Lay (1967:186) considered them ecological subspecies. The relationship between arianus , wardi , and the small A. uralensis requires taxonomic resolution. A. arianus may be the species represented by the sample from Qazvin, N Iraq, that Darviche et al. (1979) separated electrophoretically from A. sylvaticus and A. flavicollis , but still considered closer to the latter. Vorontsov et al. (1992) included arianus in A. uralensis .

References

Darviche, D., F. Benmehdi, J. Britton-Davidian, and L. Thaler. 1979. Donnees preliminaires sur la systematique biochimique des genres Mus et Apodemus en Iran. Mammalia, 43: 427 - 430.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.

Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.

Vorontsov, N. N., G. G. Boyeskorov, S. V. Mezhzherin, E. A. Lyapunova, and A. S. Kandaurov. 1992. [Systematics of the Caucasian wood mice of the subgenus Sylvaemus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Apodemus).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 71: 119 - 131 (in Russian with English summary).