Apodemus ponticus

(Sviridenko, 1936)

Caucasus Field Mouse

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Sviridenko, P.A. 1936. Лесные мыши Северного Кавказа и Предкавказья. Сборник научно-исследовательского института зоологии Московского государственного института 3:96-107.

Original name as described

Sylvaemus flavicollis ponticus

Other common names

Black Sea Field Mouse

Type material

NNPM 7966/592 (= "2494")

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Olgino village (Black Sea), N. Caucasus, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Georgia · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Iran

Taxonomy notes

a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys, and Sylvaemus (including A. ponticus); 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., & Tereshchenko, V. (2023). Taxonomic Hierarchy and Evolutionary Scenario of the Genus Group Apodemus sl (Muridae) of the Palearctic based of Genetic Differentiation in the cyt-b Gene. Zoodiversity, 57(1), 1-12.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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