Sicista trizona

(Frivaldszky, 1865)

Hungarian Birch Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Dipodoidea
Family : Sminthidae
Genus : Sicista

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Frivaldszky I. 1865: Jellemző adatok Magyarország faunájához. – Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Évkönyvei 11: 1–274.

Original name as described

Mus trizonus

Other common names

Transylvanian Birch Mouse

Type material

HNHM 1852.166.1.a

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Felső-Besnyő, Pest County, central Hungary.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Romania · Hungary

Taxonomy notes

split from S. subtilis; includes severtzovi; moved from Dipodidae to Sminthidae

Taxonomy notes citation

Lebedev, V.S., Bannikova, A.A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R. & Shenbrot, G.I. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphology‐based hypotheses. —Zoologica Scripta, 42, 231–249. · Cserkesz, T., Sramko, G. 2016. An integrative systematic revision of the European southern birth mice (Rodentia: Sminthidae, Sicista subtilis group). Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/mam.12058.

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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