| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Authors: | Krystufek, B., Stojanovski, L. |
| Journal: | Folia ZoologicaFolia Zoologica |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Pagination: | 1-7 |
| Date Published: | 1996/// |
| Keywords: | Apodemus flavicollis, Apodemus sylvaticus stankovici, Identity, Mammalia, taxonomy, The Balkans |
| Abstract: | The type specimen and 18 paratypes of Apodemus sylvaticus stankovici (Martino et Martino, 1937) were compared with 204 specimens of A. sylvaticus and 434 A. flavicollis from Macedonia and western Greece. It is shown that this long-tailed form, originally described from the border of Macedonia and Albania, actually belongs to A. flavicollis. Anyhow, A. flavicollis of the stankovici type series are significantly smaller, with a shorter condylobasal length, than their counterparts from Macedonia and most of Greece. In this respect they resemble A. flavicollis dietzi from Peloponnisos. It is demonstrated that the type of dietzi belongs to A. flavicollis, but that the type series also includes A. sylvaticus. |
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