Microtus savii (de Selys-Longchamps, 1838) . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 248.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, near Pisa .

DISTRIBUTION: SE France, Italy, Sicily, and Elba (see map in Krapp, 1982c).

SYNONYMS: brachycercus, nebrodensis, selysii .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola . Both Chaline et al. (1988) and Zagorodnyuk (1990) used this species as the core of a savii species group. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Krapp (1982c); chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a); karyology of Italian samples documented by Gaileni et al. (1992). Closely related to the fossil A4, henseli from Sardinia and Corsica (Brunet-Lecomte and Chaline, 1991; Krapp, 1982c).