Spalax leucodon Nordmann, 1840 . Demidoff Voy., 3:34.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., S. Ukraine, near Odessa .

DISTRIBUTION: Danube basin to Greece and S. Ukraine; Caucasus through Asia Minor, N. Iraq, and Syria to Israel; coastal Egypt and Libya, west to Benghazi.

COMMENT: Includes ehrenbergi and nehringi; see Corbet, 1978:130, Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:438-440, and Orlov, 1969, in Vorontsov, [The Mammals:Evolution, Karyology, Taxonomy, Fauna], Novosibirsk. Wahrman et al., 1969, Comp. Mamm. Cytogen., pp. 30-48, Topachevskii, 1969, in [Fauna S.S. S.R., Mammals], n.s., 3(3):99, and others presented evidence that ehrenbergi and nehringi are specifically distinct and that this superspecies may contain 2-5 species. OLR follows Topachevskii, 1969, in regarding these forms as distinct species. See also Lyapunova et al., 1974, Symp. Ther. II, Prague, pp. 203-215, and Soldatovic and Savic, 1978, Saugetierk. Mitt., 26:252-256.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410009001002001 as S. leucondon (sic).

5301410009001001001 as S. ehrenbergi .