Microtus multiplex (Fatio, 1905)

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 : 525-526

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Microtus multiplex (Fatio, 1905) . Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Geneve, Ser. 4, 19:193.

TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland, Ticino Canton, near Lugano .

DISTRIBUTION: S Alps and N Apennines in Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France; also NW and C Yugoslavia (see map in Krapp, 1982b).

SYNONYMS: fatoi, druentius , leponticus , liechtensteini , orientalis , petrovi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola . Placed in subterraneus species group by Chaline et al. (1988) but in the multiplex group, along with M. tatricus , by Zagorodnyuk (1990). Reviewed by Krapp (1982b). Corbet (1978c, and references therein) viewed liechtensteini as a separate species, but Krapp (1982b) included it in M. multiplex . Two distinctive karyotypes exist, one with 2N=48 ( multiplex ) and the other with 2N=46 ( liechtensteini ), but there is a record of hybridization ( Zima and Krâl, 1984a). Tarsal glands compared (as liechtensteini ) with those of M. subterraneus by Hrabe (1977).