Microtus cabrerae Thomas, 1906

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 : 519

Microtus cabrerae Thomas, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:576.

TYPE LOCALITY: Spain, Madrid Prov., Sierra de Guadarrama, near Rascafria .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from Spain, Portugal, and French side of the Pyrenees (see Niethammer, 1982/, and Corbet, 1984).

SYNONYMS: dentatus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Agricola , agrestis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Reviewed by Niethammer (1982/). Close relative is the Pleistocene M. brecciensis from Spain and S France (see Niethammer, 1982/). Chaline (1974) used the subgenus Iberomys , a name superceded by Agricola , for dentatus and brecciensis . Biochemical and chromosomal data reported by Millet et al. (1982), Burgos et al. (1989), and Jimenez et al. (1991); other chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a).