Microtus subterraneus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1836)

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 : 530

Microtus subterraneus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1836) . Essai Monogr. sur les Campagnols des Env. de Liege., 10.

TYPE LOCALITY: Belgium, Liege, Waremme .

DISTRIBUTION: Bulk of range from N and C France through C Europe to Ukraine and the Don River, south through Yugoslavia and the Balkans into N Greece (European range mapped in Niethammer, 1982g); isolated populations in NE Russia (see Zagorodnyuk, 1989).

SYNONYMS: atratus , capucinus, dacius , dinaricus, ehiki , fusca , hungaricus, incertoides , incertus , klozeli , kupelwieseri , martinoi, matrensis, mustersi (of Martino, 1937, not Hinton, 1926), neuhauseri, nyirensis , rufofuscus , transsylvanicus , transvolgensis, ukrainiens, volaensis, wettsteini, zimmermanni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola , subterraneus species group sensu Chaline et al. (1988) and Zagorodnyuk (1990). Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Niethammer (1982g). Taxonomy, geographic distribution, and morphological variation in context of defining species in subgenus Terricola reported by Zagorodnyuk (1989, 1992); karyotypic information presented by Sablina et al. (1989), Zima (1986), and Zima and Krâl (1984a); biochemical comparisons among M. subterraneus , M. felteni , and other voles documented by Gill et al. (1987). Synonyms referenced according to Zagorodnyuk (1989), who speculated that dacius is a separate species.