Myomimus roachi (Bate, 1937) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 20:399.

TYPE LOCALITY: Israel, Mt. Carmel, Tabun Cave, upper Pleistocene layers .

DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene in Israel, extant in SE Bulgaria, Thrace, and W Turkey; limits unknown. New localities in Thrace figured by Kurtonur and Ozkan (1990).

SYNONYMS: bulgaricus (see Storch, 1978).

COMMENTS: Distribution and review provided by Storch (1978). Detailed description and figures of SE Bulgaria population given by Pechev et al. (1964). Taxonomic study of Bulgarian samples and comparison with M. personatus provided by Rossolimo (1976b).