Yellow-necked Field Mouse

discussion

Remarks: Harrison & Bates (1991) mentioned that Aharoni (1932) described Apodemus mystacinus from Kafroun, but, in fact, Aharoni described only A. flavicollis from Kafroun in western Syria.

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distribution

Distribution: Uncertain status but apparently rare; reported from different habitats along the coastal region, Al-Badia and the southwestern region. (Fig. 37). Previous records: Kafroun in the coastal region and Al-Qaryatein in Al-Badia (Aharoni 1932), and Jubata Forest (Jubata Al Khashab) in the southwestern region (Shehab et al. 2018).

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conservation

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as A. flavicollis and A. arianus.

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

discussion

Discussion: Sylvaemus group. Geographic variation of E European samples in the context of testing correlation between phenotypic and genotypic variations of certain morphological characters documented by Orlov and Okulova (2001). Additional research using a variety of data sources that provide comparative information among populations of A. flavicollis are: B chromosome polymorphism among populations (Vujosevic et al., 1991), and presence or absence of B chromosomes and the attendant biological significance (Blagojevi and Vujoševi, 1995; Macholán and Zima, 1997; Ramalhinho and Libois, 2002; Vujoševi and Blagojevi, 1995, 2000; Zima et al., 1999 a, 2003); chromosomal morphologies of Macedonian (Zima et al., 1997 a) and Baltic (Boyeskorov et al., 1992) samples; genetic variation in a fluctuating Polish population (Wójcik, 1993); and mtDNA cytochrome b haplotype divergence among W European samples (Reutter et al., 2003). Phylogeographic history (using mtDNA cytochrome b sequences) of A. flavicollis in Europe and the Near and Middle East in the context of determining Quaternary glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization events reported by Michaux et al. (2004 b). Contrasts and simil

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae