Microtus savii (de Selys-Longchamps, 1838)

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 : 529

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scientific name	Microtus savii (de Selys-Longchamps, 1838)
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Microtus savii (de Selys-Longchamps, 1838) . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 248.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, near Pisa .

DISTRIBUTION: SE France, Italy, Sicily, and Elba (see map in Krapp, 1982c).

SYNONYMS: brachycercus , nebrodensis , selysii .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola . Both Chaline et al. (1988) and Zagorodnyuk (1990) used this species as the core of a savii species group. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Krapp (1982c); chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a); karyology of Italian samples documented by Gaileni et al. (1992). Closely related to the fossil A4, henseli from Sardinia and Corsica ( Brunet-Lecomte and Chaline, 1991; Krapp, 1982c).