Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 769

Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: Cumbria and S England ( Hurrell and McIntosh, 1984), France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Austria ( Spitzenberger, 1983), Germany ( Görner and Henkel, 1988; Mockel, 1988; Rehage and Steinborn, 1984; Schoppe, 1986; Schulze, 1986, 1987), Netherlands ( van Laar, 1984), Denmark ( Jensen, 1980), S and C Sweden, Poland ( Daoud, 1989; Kaluza, 1987; Wilk, 1987); Lithuania, Byelorussia, and Ukraine ( Bezrodny, 1991) east to Russia ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Ognev, 1947); Czechoslovakia ( Andera, 1987), Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria ( Belcheva et al., 1989), Greece ( Ondrias, 1966), Corfu, N Turkey ( Kivanc, 1983). In Europe see Storch (1978).

SYNONYMS: abanticus, anglicus, corilinutn, kroecki, muscardinus , niveus, pulcher , speciosus , trapezius , zeus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c, 1984).

COMMENTS: Systematic study of W and C European subspecies provided by Witte (1962) and Roesler and Witte (1969), and of Turkish subspecies by Kivanc (1983). Chromosomal data reported by Belcheva et al. (1989), Zima (1987), and Zima and Kral (1984 «); phallic structure examined by Hrabe (1969); illustrations and taxonomic implications of os and glans penis, and stomach anatomy, provided by Kratochvil (1973).