Microtus guentheri (Danford and Alston, 1880) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880:62.

REVIEWED BY: G. Storch (GS).

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Maras Prov., Taurus Mtns., near Maras (=Marash) .

DISTRIBUTION: S. Bulgaria; S. Yugoslavia; E. Greece; Turkey; and N. Lebanon.

COMMENT: Subgenus Iberomys; see Van den Brink, 1957, Die Saugetiere Europas; Chaline and Mein, 1979:102, or subgenus Sumeriomys; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:283. Not a synonym of socialis, as treated by Corbet, 1978: 112; see Morlok, 1978, Senckenberg. Biol., 59; 155-162; revised by Felten et al., 1971, Senckenberg. Biol., 52:393-424. Ranck, 1968, The Rodents of Libya, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 275:1 -264, included mustersi in this species, but Kock et al., 1972, Z. Saugetierk., 37: 204-229 included mustersi in irani .