Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston, 1877)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 572

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.