Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 769

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Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: Cumbria and S England ( Hurrell and McIntosh, 1984), France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Austria ( Spitzenberger, 1983), Germany ( Görner and Henkel, 1988; Mockel, 1988; Rehage and Steinborn, 1984; Schoppe, 1986; Schulze, 1986, 1987), Netherlands ( van Laar, 1984), Denmark ( Jensen, 1980), S and C Sweden, Poland ( Daoud, 1989; Kaluza, 1987; Wilk, 1987); Lithuania, Byelorussia, and Ukraine ( Bezrodny, 1991) east to Russia ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Ognev, 1947); Czechoslovakia ( Andera, 1987), Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria ( Belcheva et al., 1989), Greece ( Ondrias, 1966), Corfu, N Turkey ( Kivanc, 1983). In Europe see Storch (1978).

SYNONYMS: abanticus, anglicus, corilinutn, kroecki, muscardinus , niveus, pulcher , speciosus , trapezius , zeus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c, 1984).

COMMENTS: Systematic study of W and C European subspecies provided by Witte (1962) and Roesler and Witte (1969), and of Turkish subspecies by Kivanc (1983). Chromosomal data reported by Belcheva et al. (1989), Zima (1987), and Zima and Kral (1984 «); phallic structure examined by Hrabe (1969); illustrations and taxonomic implications of os and glans penis, and stomach anatomy, provided by Kratochvil (1973).

References

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Kaluza, T. 1987. Locality of common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Wielkopolska district. Przeglad Zoologiczny, 31 (2): 215 - 218.

Kivanc, E. 1983. Die Haselmaus, Muscardinus avellanarius L., in der Turkei. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 34: 419 - 428.

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Mockel, R. 1988. Zur Verbreitung, Haufigkeit und Okologie der Haselmaus (Muscardinus avellanarius) im Westerzgebirge. Saugetierkundliche Informationen, 2 (12): 569 - 588.

Ognev, S. I. 1947. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 5: 1 - 809 (in Russian).

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Roesler, U., and G. R. Witte. 1969. Chorologische Betrachtungen zur Subspeziesbildung einiger Vertebraten im italienischen und balkanischen Raum. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 182: 27 - 51.

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Schulze, W. 1986. Zum Vorkommen und zur Biologie von Haselmaus (Muscardinus avellanarius L.) und Siebenschlafer (Glis glis L.) in Volgelkasten im Sudharz der DDR. Saugetierkundliche Informationen, 2 (10): 341 - 348.

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Spitzenberger, F. 1983. Die Schlafer (Gliridae) Osterreichs. Mammalia Austriaca 6. (Mammalia, Rodentia). Mitteilungen der Abteilung fur Zoologie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 30: 19 - 64.

Van Laar, V. 1984. Geographical distribution and habitat selection of the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius (L. 1758) in the Netherlands. Lutra, 27 (3) 1984: 229 - 260.

Witte, G. 1962. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung des Siebenschlafers in Italien. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 13: 115 - 127.

Zima, J. 1987. Karyotypes of certain rodents from Czechoslovakia (Sciuridae, Gliridae, Cricetidae). Folia Zoologica, 36 (4) 1987: 337 - 343.