Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:61.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala .

DISTRIBUTION: Europe (except Iberia, W. France, and S. Italy), south to Israel and Iran, north to Arctic Ocean, east through most of Siberia, south to Lake Baikal and N. Tien Shan Mtns. (U.S. S.R. and N.W. China).

COMMENT: Formerly included sapidus; see comment under sapidus . The populations of small, fossorial forms of central Europe are sometimes separated as scherman; see Meylan, 1977, EPPO Bull., 7:209-221.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008069002001.