Mus macédoniens Petrov and Ruzic, 1983

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 : 624

Mus macédoniens Petrov and Ruzic, 1983 . Proc. Fauna SR Serbia, Serbian Acad. Sci. and Arts, Belgrade, 2:177.

TYPE LOCALITY: Yugoslavia, Macedonia, near Valandovo .

DISTRIBUTION: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Israel.

SYNONYMS: spretoides.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mus . Originally desribed as a subspecies of M. hortulanus ( Petrov and Ruzic, 1985) , but Bonhomme (1986) and Marshall (in litt.) treated it as a distinct species occurring sympatrically with M. musculus and M. spicilegus (also see map in Petrov and Ruzic, 1985:234). Results of biochemical and morphometric analyses of M. macédoniens (under spretoides) in context of phylogenetic studies provided by Bonhomme et al. (1984), Auffray et al. (1990b), Gerasimov et al. (1990), and She et al. (1990). Fossil history of Israeli M. macédoniens (referred to as spretoides) relative to colonization and origin of commensalism in M. musculus reported by Auffray et al. (1988).