Apodemus flavicollis
(Melchior, 1834)
Yellow-necked Field Mouse
Distribution :
S England and Wales; on the continent from N Spain through most of Europe to 64E N in S Finland and S Sweden, and south to S Italy, Balkan region, and Greece; east through Belarus and Ukraine to Urals; throughout Turkey and east to W Armenia, Zagros Mtns of W Iran, and south to Syria, Lebanon, and C and N Israel. The species also occurs on some NE Aegean Isls off W coast of Turkey and S Greece, Adriatic islands, and Corfu in the Mediterranean. Absent from most of Iberian Peninsula and W France, Iceland, Ireland, Balearic Isls, and islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Cyprus; also does not occur in most of the Caucasus (except WArmenia) where it is apparently replaced by the closely related A. ponticus.
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Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Muridae |
| Subfamily | : Murinae |
| Tribe | : Apodemini |
| Genus | : Apodemus |
| Subgenus | : Sylvaemus |
Species status
Authority citation
Melchior, H.B. 1834. Den danke Stats og Norges Pattedyr. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 298 pp.
Authority publication link
https://books.google.com/books?id=L5w-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA99Original name as described
Mus flavicollis
Type locality
Sieland Island, Denmark.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
United Kingdom · Spain · France · Belgium · Netherlands · Germany · Denmark · Switzerland · Luxembourg · Liechtenstein · Italy · Austria · Poland · Czech Republic · Slovakia · Hungary · Slovenia · Croatia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Serbia · Kosovo · Montenegro · Albania · North Macedonia · Greece · Bulgaria · Romania · Moldova · Ukraine · Belarus · Lithuania · Latvia · Estonia · Norway · Sweden · Finland · Russia · Turkey · Armenia · Syria · Lebanon · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Iran · Iraq?
Taxonomy notes
a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys, and Sylvaemus (including A. flavicollis); this revision was based on phylogenies created using cytochrome b sequences that show Apodemus sensu lato as monophyletic, but the three proposed genera as paraphyletic with each other; the authors supported the revision with the deep divergence time between the various clades; however, given that the genus is already monophyletic and that the proposed genera are not reciprocally monophyletic, Apodemus is retained as a single genus here pending more integrative taxonomic research
Taxonomy notes citation
Mezhzherin, S. and Tereshchenko, V. 2023. Taxonomic hierarchy and evolutionary scenario of the genus group Apodemus s. l. (Muridae) of the Palearctic based of genetic differentiation in the cyt-b gene. Zoodiversity 57(1):1-12. doi:10.15407/zoo2023.01.001
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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