Pitymys gerbei (Gerbe, 1879) . Le Naturaliste, 1:51.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Loire-Inferieure, Dreneuf .

DISTRIBUTION: S.W. France; Pyrenees Mtns, of France and Spain.

COMMENT: Subgenus Parapitymys; see Chaline, 1978, Cahiers de 1'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Montpellier, 1 /4:145-167. Formerly included in savii by Corbet, 1978: 109 (as pyrenaicus); but see Spitz, 1978, Mammalia, 42:267-304, who employed this name, rather than pyrenaicus Longchamp, 1847, which he suggested was a nomen dubium; see comments under savii .