The steppe field mouse (''Apodemus witherbyi'') is a species of
rodent in the family
Muridae
The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 1,383 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.
The name Muridae come ...
found in
Georgia,
Armenia,
Azerbaijan,
Israel,
Turkey,
Jordan,
Iran,
Turkmenistan,
Pakistan, and probably
Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Lebanon, and
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. The Mount Hermon field mouse (sometimes recognized as a distinct species: ''A. hermonensis'') and the yellow-breasted field mouse (sometimes recognized as a distinct species: ''A. fulvipectus'') were considered conspecific with the steppe field mouse by Musser and Carleton (2005).
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References
Apodemus
Rats of Asia
Mammals of Azerbaijan
Mouse, Steppe Field
Mammals described in 1902
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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