Apodemus (Sylvaemus) witherbyi (Thomas, 1902)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D0A37EA-8D5B-44D9-B2CC-8161D1E4AF54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121594

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E69-FFE0-FF42-F8F9B67315C3

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Plazi

scientific name

Apodemus (Sylvaemus) witherbyi (Thomas, 1902)
status

 

33. Steppe Field Mouse, Apodemus (Sylvaemus) witherbyi (Thomas, 1902) View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Distribution: Uncertain status but apparently rare. Recorded from coastal region to Orontes Basin. ( Fig. 39 View FIGURE 39 )

Previous records: Slenfeh and Kastel Maaf ( Lehmann 1965), Kafaria and Jisr ech-Choghur ( Shehab et al. 2018).

Remarks: In the past reported as A. sylvaticus , A. hermonensis or A. iconicus (Heptner, 1948; Filippucci et al. 1996) according to skull characters; however, the nomenclature adopted here is based on Kryštufek (2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Apodemus

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