Sicista severtzovi Ognev 1935

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 889

Sicista severtzovi Ognev 1935

Sicista severtzovi Ognev 1935 , Byullet. Nauchno-issled. Inst. Zool., Mosk., 2: 54.

Type Locality: Russia, Voronezh Oblast, Bobrov District, Kamennaya Steppe Experimental Station.

Vernacular Names: Severtzov's Birch Mouse.

Synonyms: Sicista cimlanica Koval’skaya, Tikhonov, Tikhonova, Surov, and Bogomolov 2000 .

Distribution: S Russia (S Voronezh Region and N Rostov Region; Koval’skaya et al., 2000) and E Ukraine (Zagorodnyk and Kondratenko, 2000). See Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Sokolov et al. (1986 a) separated this species from S. subtilis by its distinctive karyotype. Holden (1993) provisionally recognized S. severtzovi but noted the need for further documentation, and the inclusion of other data sets, to bolster its specific status. Recently, Koval’skaya et al. (2000) sampled more geographic samples and amplified the chromosomal and geographic definition of S. severtzovi relative to S. subtilis , and Zagorodnyk and Kondratenko (2000) provided more chromosomal and distributional information. Reviewed by Shenbrot et al. (1995).