Eliomys quercinus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 767

Eliomys quercinus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:84.

TYPE LOCALITY: Germany .

DISTRIBUTION: Portugal, Spain ( Abad, 1987; Moreno, 1989), Balearic Isis ( Alcover, 1986; Kahmann and Alcover, 1974; Kahmann and Thoms, 1973a), Andorra ( Gosalbez-Noguera et al., 1989), France, Corsica ( Orsini and Cheylan, 1988), Belgium ( Luyts, 1986), Germany ( Feustel, 1984; Görner and Henkel, 1988; Mockel, 1986; Rehage, 1984; Schoppe, 1986), Netherlands ( Foppen et al., 1989), Czechoslovakia ( Andera, 1986; Kratochvil, 1967), Poland ( Daoud, 1989), Finland, Ukraine ( Bezrodny, 1991), in independant republics of the former USSR see Kuznetsov (1965) and Ognev (1947), Estonia ( Masing and Timm, 1988), Switzerland, Austria ( Spitzenberger, 1983), Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily ( Cristaldi and Amori, 1988), the Dalmatia region of Yugoslavia. In Europe see Storch (1978). Roman record in England (probably introduced) reported by O'Conner (1986).

SYNONYMS: nitela var. amori , cincticauda , dalmaticus, dichrurus, gotthardus, gymnesicus , hamiltoni , hortualis , jurrasicus, liparensis, nitela var. lusitanica , nitela , ophiusae , pallidus , raiticus, sardus , superans, valverdei (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Systematic study of Central European and Spanish populations by Moreno (1989) and Moreno et al. (1986). Chromosomal data given by Arroyo et al. (1982), Dutrillaux (1986), Filippucci et al. (1988b; 1990), Murariu et al. (1985), and Zima and Kral (1984a). Allozyme data analyzed by Filippucci et al. (1988c).