Chionomys nivalis
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Chionomys
Chionomys nivalis

description: <i>Chionomys nivalis</i> (Martins, 1842). Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 331. TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland, Berner Oberland, Faulhorn. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Europe from Spain through the Alps to Tatra, the Carpathians, Balkans, Mt Olympus and Pindus Range, east to W Caucasus, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Transcaucasia, Kopet Dag, and Zagros Mtns of Iran (see Krapp, 1982«, for European range and Harrison and Bates, 1991, for Middle East). Records in Greece were provided by Niethammer (1987b). SYNONYMS: <i>abulensis, aleco, alpinus, aquitanius, cedrorum, dementievi, herntonis, lebrunii, leucurus (of Gerbe,</i> 1852, not Blyth, 1863), <i>loginovi, ntalyi, mirhanreini, nivicola, olympius, petrophilus, pontius, radnensis, satunini, spitzenbergerae, trialeticus, ulpius, wagneri.</i> COMMENTS: European populations reviewed by Krapp (1982a). Intraspecific morphological variation among Carpathian samples were analyzed by Kratochvil (1981) along with a review of European and Turkish subspecies. The subspecies <i>spitzenbergerae</i> denotes a population from S Turkey that was previously identified as C. <i>gud</i> (Nadachowski, 1990b), a species which is known only from NE Turkey where it is sympatric with C. <i>nivalis.</i> Analyses of vertical distribution of C. <i>nivalis</i> in Yugoslavia (Krystufek and Kovacic, 1989) and geographic variation among samples from Austria and Yugoslavia (Krystufek, 1990) amplify knowledge of morphological variation within the species. Chromosomal variation in Bulgarian populations was reported by Peshev and Belcheva (1979). Allozyme variation and differentiation among samples of C. <i>nivalis</i> from N Italy and Israel were reported by Filippucci et al. (1991), who also noted that the Israeli population from Mt. Hermon <i>(herntonis)</i> might represent a separate species.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 507, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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