Apodemus arianus
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Apodemus arianus (Blandord, 1881). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 7:162.
TYPE LOCALITY: N Persia (Iran), Kohrud.
DISTRIBUTION: From N Iran west through Iraq to Lebanon and N Israel (see Harrison and Bates, 1991); limits unknown.
SYNONYMS: erythronotus, witherbyi.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus. Usually listed as a subspecies of A. sylvaticus (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: Harrison and Bates, 1991), we separate it on the basis of its distinctive pelage and smaller body size. Both arianus and a larger, darker form (possibly wardi) occur in N Iran, although Lay (1967:186) considered them ecological subspecies. The relationship between arianus, wardi, and the small A. uralensis requires taxonomic resolution. A. arianus may be the species represented by the sample from Qazvin, N Iraq, that Darviche et al. (1979) separated electrophoretically from A. sylvaticus and A. flavicollis, but still considered closer to the latter. Vorontsov et al. (1992) included arianus in A. uralensis.
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References
- Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.
- Darviche, D., F. Benmehdi, J. Britton-Davidian, and L. Thaler. 1979. Donnees preliminaires sur la systematique biochimique des genres Mus et Apodemus en Iran. Mammalia, 43: 427 - 430.
- Vorontsov, N. N., G. G. Boyeskorov, S. V. Mezhzherin, E. A. Lyapunova, and A. S. Kandaurov. 1992. [Systematics of the Caucasian wood mice of the subgenus Sylvaemus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Apodemus).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 71: 119 - 131 (in Russian with English summary).