[Mus] subtilis Pallas 1773 , Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, Vol. 1, 2: 705
Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae
Wilson, Don E.
Reeder, DeeAnn
4X72C
(Pallas 1773)
Pallas
1773
Mammalia
Dipodidae
Sicista
Animalia
Rodentia
890
Chordata
species
subtilis
[Mus] subtilisPallas 1773, Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, Vol. 1, 2: 705.
Type Locality: Russia, Kurgan Oblast, on Tobol River near Kaminskaya Kur'ya (suburb), on road from Zverinogolovskoye to Kurgan( Ognev, 1963 b:27).
Vernacular Names: Southern Birch Mouse.
Synonyms: Sicista interstriatus(Petenyi 1882); Sicista interzonus(Petenyi 1882); Sicista lineatus(Lichtenstein 1823); Sicista loriger(Nathusius 1840); Sicista nordmanni( Keyserling and Blasius 1840); Sicista pallidaKashkarov 1926; Sicista siberica Ognev 1935; Sicista tripartitus(Petenyi 1882); Sicista tristriatus(Petenyi 1882); Sicista trizona(Petenyi 1882); Sicista vagus(Pallas 1779); Sicista virgulosus(Petenyi 1882).
Distribution:Steppes from SE Poland, Hungary, E Serbia, Romaniaand NE Bulgaria(see Mitchell-Jones, 1999, for European range) through S Russia, N Kazakhstan, and SW Siberia to the Altai Range, Lake Balkhash, Lake Baikal, and NW Xinjiang, China(Li and Wang, 1981; Ma et al., 1987; Wang, 2003; see distribution map for Chinese segment in Zhang et al., 1997). See Ilchenko and Volodin (1992), Kuznetsov (1965), Sludskii (1977)and Shenbrot et al. (1995)for range in Russia.
Conservation: IUCN– Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion: Holotypewas probably not preserved ( Ognev, 1963 b:27). Karyology studied by Sokolov et al. (1986 a). Review and distribution in Europe provided by Pucek (1982; in Mitchell-Jones, 1999), in Serbiaby Petrov (1992), and in Russiaby Shenbrot et al. (1995). Chromosomal characteristics of samples of S. subtilisin S Russia( Volgogradand E RostovRegions) where that species ranges close to S. severtzoviis documented by Koval’skaya et al. (2000). See comment under S. severtzovi. For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951)and Shenbrot et al. (1995).
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Russia
890
Kurgan