Pitymys duodecimcostatus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1839) . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 8.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Gard, Montpellier .

DISTRIBUTION: S.E. France; E. and S. Spain.

COMMENT: Subgenus Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974. Formerly included the Balkan taxa atticus and thomasi, as in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; but see Petrov and Zivkovic, 1972, Saugetierk. Mitt., 20:249-258, and Petrov and Zivkovic, 1979, Biosystematika, 5(1):1 13-125; also see comments under thomasi .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080011001 as Microtus duodecimcostatus .