Myoxus glis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 770

Myoxus glis (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1 (1):87.

TYPE LOCALITY: Germany .

DISTRIBUTION: N Spain, France ( Gautherin, 1988), Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany ( Feustel, 1984; Görner and Henkel, 1988; Labes et al., 1987; Pankow, 1989; Rehage and Preywisch, 1984; Schoppe, 1986; Schulze, 1986; von Vietinghoff-Riesch, 1960), Poland ( Bielecka, 1986; Daoud, 1989); Ukraine north to Byelorussia, east to Volga R., south to Saratov and Voronezh; Caucasus Mtns, south to N Iran ( Lay, 1967) and SW Turkmenistan (see Bezrodny, 1991; Kuznetsov, 1965; Ognev, 1947; Ruprecht and Szwagrzak, 1986; Vereshchagin, 1959); the Mediterranean (except S and C Iberia, Balearic Isis), Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Elba, Italy ( Cristaldi and Amori, 1988; Pilastro, 1990; Salotti, 1984; Vesmanis and Vesmanis, 1980; Witte, 1962), N Adriatic Isis, Austria, Czechoslovakia ( Andera, 1986), Hungary ( Becsy, 1982), Yugoslavia, Romania ( Vasiliu, 1961), Bulgaria ( Atanassov and Peschev, 1963), Greece ( Ondrias, 1966; in Macedonia see Vohralik and Sofianidou, 1987), Crete, Corfu, Cephalonia, N Turkey; introduced to England ( Corbet, 1984). In Europe see also Storch (1978) and Ondrias (1966).

SYNONYMS: abruttii, argenteus, avellanus , caspicus, caspius, esculentus , giglis , insularis , intermedius , italicus , martinoi, melonii , minutus, orientalis, persicus , petruccii, pindicus, postus, pyrenaicus, spoliatus, subalpinus, tschetshenicus, vagneri, vulgaris (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Biometry and taxonomy of Asiago Plateau population by Franco (1988); diagnosis and distribution of subspecies in SE Europe by Ondrias (1966). Chromosomal data reported by Belcheva et al. (1989), Dutrillaux (1986), Zima (1987) and Zima and Kral (1984a); phallic structure examined by Hrabe (1969); illustrations and taxonomic significance of the os and glans penis, and stomach anatomy, provided by Kratochvil (1973). The significance of geographical variation within Myoxus , in the context of subspecific or specific level differentiation among populations, has not been investigated throughout its range.