Nannospalax nehringi (Satunin, 1898)

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 : 754

Nannospalax nehringi (Satunin, 1898) . Zool. Anz., 21:314.

TYPE LOCALITY: Armenia, Kasikoporan .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia (see Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b).

SYNONYMS: anatolicus , armeniacus, captorum, cilicicus , corybantium.

COMMENTS: Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c) listed nehringi as a synonym of S. leucodon , but Topachevskii (1969) treated it as a distinct species (under subgenus Mesospalax , genus Microspalax ), a revision followed by Corbet (1984) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Topachevskii (1969) included turcicus in the synonymy of this species, but Savie (1982b) placed it in leucodon . Morphometric analyses have been interpreted to indicate that nehringi and its synonyms are geographic variants of N. leucodon (see Kivanc, 1988; Savie and Nevo, 1990, and account of leucodon ).