title

The problem species of mouse-like rodents in the Dnipro-Orilsky Natural Reserve

author(s)

Antonets, N.

affiliation

Dnipro-Orilsky Nature Reserve (Obukhivka, Ukraine)

bibliography

Proceedings of the Theriological School. 11 (2012): 50–57

DOI

language

Ukrainian, with English extended summary, titles of tables, captures to figs, and references

abstract

For the first time, sibling-species of small mammals from the Dnipropetrovsk province was studied: Sylvaemus uralensis Pall. and S. sylvaticus L., Mus musculus L. and M. spicilegus Pet., Microtus levis Miller and M. arvalis Pall. (morphological signs, index parameters and ecological peculiarity). Theirs diagnostic features and ecological peculiarity are considered. It was shown, that sibling-species have a set of diagnostic features as well as ecological differences and peculiarities of distribution, that allow to differ these species in field conditions of studied region. The article was prepared as key-guide to work with closed rodent species and addressed to specialists-biologists of sanitary-epidemiological station, investigators of regional fauna. Special publications on this topic are analyzed.

keywords

small mammals, sibling-species; diagnostics, Middle Dnipro region.

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