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Pitymys liechtensteini Wettstein 1927

Description

Pitymys liechtensteini Wettstein, 1927. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 64:2.

REVIEWED BY: G. Storch (GS).

TYPE LOCALITY: Yugoslavia, Rep. Hrvatska (Croatia), Velebit Mtns., Mt. Mali Rajinac, near Krasno.

DISTRIBUTION: Alps of N.E. Italy and S. Austria to C. Yugoslavia.

COMMENT: Subgenus Pitymys; see Chaline, 1974; regarded by Ellerman and MorrisonScott, 1951, as a synonym of subterraneus; Petrov and Zivkovic, 1971, Arh. Biol. Nauka, 23:31-32, provided evidence of specific distinctness. Possibly a subspecies of multiplex; see Storch and Winking, 1977, Z. Saugetierk., 42:78-88.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 501, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Scientific name authorship
Wettstein
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Pitymys
Species
liechtensteini
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pitymys liechtensteini Wettstein, 1927 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.
  • Petrov, B., and S. Zivkovic. 1971. Zur kenntnis der Pitymys liechtensteini Wettstein, 1927 (Rodentia, Mammalia) in Jugoslawien. Arhiv bioloskih nauka, Beograd, 23: 31 - 32.
  • Storch, G., and H. Winking. 1977. Zur systematik der Pitymys multiplex-Pitymys liechtensteini-Gruppe (Mammalia, Rodentia). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 42: 78 - 88.