Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 1:454.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Ulyanovsk. Obi. Middle Volga River, Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) .

DISTRIBUTION: From NW Spain through most of Europe, across Siberia to Ussuri region and Korea, north to about 65° in European Russia and Yakutia, south to N edge of Caucasus and N Mongolia; isolated ranges in S China west through Yunnan to SE Tibet and NE India (Assam). Island distributions include Britain, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Tsushima), Quelpart Isl (Korea), and Taiwan; see Corbet (1978c) for details.

SYNONYMS: agilis, aokii, arundinaceus, avenarius, batarovi, campestris, danubialis, erythrotis, fenniae, flavus, hertigi, hondonis, japonicus, kytmanovi, meridionalis, messorius, minatus, minimus, oryzivorus, parvulus, pendulinus, pratensis, pumilus, sareptae, soricinus, subobscurus, takasagoensis, triticeus, ussuricus.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984). Chromosomal information reported by Jüdes (1981), Zima (1983), Lungeanu et al. (1984), Solleder et al. (1984), and Schmid et al. (1987). European populations reviewed by Böhme (1978«). Phallic morphology of Chinese samples described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing relationships among Chinese murines.