Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston, 1877) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877:279.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Adana Prov., Bulgar Dagh Mt, Zebil .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Europe, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iraq, NW Iran, S Georgia in Caucasus, Rhodes, Crete, and other inshore Aegean isls, and N Arabia (Corbet, 1978c; Niethammer, 1978a).

SYNONYMS: epimelas, euxinus, pohlei, rhodius, smyrnensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Karstomys . Reviewed by Storch (1977) and Niethammer (1978a), who included krkensis as a subspecies; that form, however, is a color phase of A. sylvaticus (see that account). The Arabian portion of its range includes the form named pohlei (Harrison and Bates, 1991). Vorontsov et al. (1989) provided chromosomal data in context of defining species in Caucasia.