Murid rodents (Muriformes, Muridae) from Trascarpathia in the collections of Kyiv zoological museums
In scientific collections of the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine and the Zoological Museum of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University are preserved 482 samples, six species of Muridae rodents collected from 1940 to 1990. Specimens were collected in all altitudinal zones of the r...
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irk-123456789-1612442019-12-04T01:26:12Z Murid rodents (Muriformes, Muridae) from Trascarpathia in the collections of Kyiv zoological museums Barkasi, Z. In scientific collections of the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine and the Zoological Museum of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University are preserved 482 samples, six species of Muridae rodents collected from 1940 to 1990. Specimens were collected in all altitudinal zones of the region. The article containes general characteristics of the collections and brief description of genera and species of murids according to the latest fauna surveys of the region. В научных фондах Национального научно-природоведческого музея НАН Украины и Зоологического музея Киевского национального университета имени Тараса Шевченко хранятся 482 образца 6 видов грызунов семейства Muridae, собранных с 1940 по 1990 год. Сборами охвачены все географические зоны региона. В статье представлена общая характеристика исследованных коллекций, обзор родов и видов мышиных в свете последних списков родентофауны региона. У наукових фондах Національного науково-природничого музею НАН України та Зоологічного музею Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка зберігаються 482 зразки 6 видів гризунів родини Muridae, зібрані з 1940 до 1990 року. Зборами охоплено всі географічні зони регіону. В статті подано загальну характеристику досліджених колекцій, огляд родів і видів мишевих у світлі останніх списків родентофауни регіону. 2014 Article Murid rodents (Muriformes, Muridae) from Trascarpathia in the collections of Kyiv zoological museums / Z. Barkasi // Збірник праць Зоологічного музею. — 2014. — Вип. 45. — С. 79-87. — Бібліогр.: 17 назв. — англ. 0132-1102 http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/161244 599.323.4(477.87) en Збірник праць Зоологічного музею Національний Науково-природничий музей НАН України |
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Murid rodents (Muriformes, Muridae) from Trascarpathia in the collections of Kyiv zoological museums
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Introduction
Zoological museum collections are important sources of information
about not only the species composition and its changes within a certain
geographic or administrative region, but also on distribution, mor-
phometric and craniometric variability of different animal species, in
particular mammals. In some cases, zoological collections allow to ana-
lyze the relative number of species as well (Загороднюк, Годлевська,
2001). The mouse-like rodents are not exception. In practice, collections
are used not only by faunists, but also by taxonomists, because collec-
tions give opportunity to revise and improve the systematics of the
groups of problematic species. In addition, collection materials give us
information about the labor of the museum and zoologists that worked
in it, which may be used to supplement the biography of those research-
ers and the museum’s history (Годлевська, 2013).
Systematic and planned research of the Ukrainian Carpathians
and adjacent areas` fauna started at the end of the 1940s. Data on the
animal world of this region until that time were partial, fragmentary and
mainly concerned with separate mountain ranges and some adjacent
© Z. BARKASI, 2014
In scientific collections of the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine and the Zoological
Museum of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University are preserved 482 samples, six species of Muridae
rodents collected from 1940 to 1990. Specimens were collected in all altitudinal zones of the region. The
article containes general characteristics of the collections and brief description of genera and species of
murids according to the latest fauna surveys of the region. The taxonomic analysis of collections showed
that in terms of species richness the genus Sylvaemus takes the first place and it is represented in the fauna
of Transcarpathia by three species: S. tauricus, S. sylvaticus and S. uralensis. In accordance to the total num-
ber of known specimens from Transcarpathia in the collections S. tauricus is represented quite fully
(n = 379). The biogeographical analysis of the collections and data of literature sources allow to suggest that
related species of wood mice are common throughout the region with a particular spatial differentiation: S.
tauricus more abundant in piedmont and highland zones and S. sylvaticus on the lowland area.
Key words: museum collections, rodents, Muridae, Transcarpathia, Ukraine.
УДК 599.323.4(477.87)
Z. Barkasi
National Museum of Natural History NAS Ukraine,
B. Khmelnitsky Str., 15, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine
MURID RODENTS (MURIFORMES, MURIDAE)
FROM TRASCARPATHIA IN THE COLLECTIONS
OF KYIV ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUMS
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lowland areas. From the very beginning, special attention was paid to the studying of
vertebrates of the region, including mouse-like rodents (Корчинский, 1988). The en-
richment of zoological collections with specimens of species from this region has also
begun.
During the last years, some fundamental research of the mammal fauna of Tran-
scarpathia (Zakarpattia) and the Ukrainian Carpathians in general had been realized only
within the protected areas. Data on the state of the lowland areas mammal fauna in are
scarce and unstructured at all, and mainly they are mentioned as additional information
in fauna checklists of the Ukrainian Carpathians. One of the latest checklists was pub-
lished in the work “Theriofauna of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve” (Загороднюк та
ін., 1997), in which there are listed 78 mammal species for the region. Among them,
there are 24 rodent species indicated for the territory of Transcarpathia. At the beginning
of the 2000s, the reintroduction of the european beaver (Castor fiber) in the region had
been observed and recorded its first settlements (Башта, Потіш, 2012), so the number of
rodent species common in Transcarpathia grew to 25.
The presented work aims to give an overview of the taxonomic diversity of the
Muridae family (Muriformes, seu Rodentia auct.) in the territory of Transcarpathia in the
context of representativeness of this group in the collections of the National Museum of
Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (NMNH) and the Zoological Museum of Kyiv Taras
Schevchenko National University (ZMKNU).
Material and methods
In this work we prefer to use the systematics and nomenclature accepted by the Ukrain-
ian Theriological Society (e.g. Muriformes = Rodentia auct.). The research is based on
the collections catalogue data of NMNH prepared by Shevchenko L.S. and Zolotukhyna
S.I. (Шевченко, Золотухина, 2002), and also on the collections index of ZMKNU. All
collection data were included into the author’s database, that is part of a summarized
catalogue of rodent collections of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
General characteristics of the collections
The Zoological museum of NMNH is one of the leading natural history museums
of Ukraine. The museum’s establishment associated with the creation of the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences and its Faunistic Committee, which was registered on May 1,
1919. Initially, the museum stocks mainly consisted of private collections of its first em-
ployees. However, already in 1941 there were almost three thousands of skins and
stuffed mammals. During the World War II, a significant part of the collections was
taken abroad and many materials were affected because of lack of proper care. Since the
late 1960s, the enrichment of scientific stock collection had been carried by annual ex-
peditions of the staff (Ємельянов та ін., 2012). Now there are 685 specimens of rodents
in the collection of NMNH.
The Zoological Museum of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University is one of
the oldest natural history museums of Ukraine. It was established in 1805 as a zoologi-
cal class of the Volyn High School of Science. On its basis was created the zoological
museum of University of Kyiv (Зоологічний музей, 2013). Now there are more than
7800 specimens of mammals in the museum stocks, among them 250 specimens of ro-
dents from the territory of Transcarpathia.
Thus, the total number of rodent specimens from Transcarpathia in the investi-
gated collections is 948, 482 of which are the specimens of six species of the family
Muridae (tab. 1).
Collection materials were accumulated during almost a half-century ─ from 1940
till 1990 (fig. 1). Most of the specimens were collected immediately after the World
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* Common in the region, according to the fauna checklist of 1997 (Загороднюк та ін., 1997).
Table 1. The number of specimens of different species of the family Muridae in the collections of
NMNH and ZMKNU.
War II, in 1946–1950. Before that, Ukrainian scientists had not had much information
on the fauna (as well as on the flora) of Transcarpathia, which explains the intense stu-
dying of the region in the postwar period. The second, “less productive” peak of investi-
gations was observed in the period from 1956 until 1965. Since 1966, the number of
collected specimens is insignificant, and there are no collected specimens since 1991 at
all.
It is important to mention those specialists and research fellows of the museums,
which labor had a major influence not only on studying the fauna of the Ukrainian Car-
pathians and Transcarpathia in particular, but also on significant enrichment of scien-
tific collections. Among them there are such outstanding figures as I.T. Sokur, V.I.
Abelentsev, I.V. Rogatko, Ye.G. Reshetnyk, G.V. Selezhynskyi, O.S. Tiahunov, N.A.
Species*
Specimens
in NMNH
Specimens
in ZMKNU
Total
Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) – – 0
Apodemus agrarius(Pallas, 1771) 37 6 43
Sylvaemus tauricus(Pallas, 1811) 310 69 379
Sylvaemus sylvaticus(Linnaeus, 1758) 20 1 21
Sylvaemus uralensis(Pallas, 1811) 11 – 11
Mus musculusLinnaeus, 1758 22 2 24
Mus spicilegusPetenyi, 1882 – – 0
Rattus norvegicus(Berkenhout, 1769) 2 2 4
Total: 402 80 482
Fig. 1. The dynamics of Muridae specimens collection in the considered museums.
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Note. The warm period of year is highlighted in grey.
Table 2. The number of specimens collected in different months.
Polushina, L.M. Pisarieva, K.A. Tatarinov, Yu.Y. Paschenko, Zh.V. Rozora and others.
The analysis of the specimens’ amount collected in different months shows that
their collection was performed from April to November (tab. 2). The most of samples
and species were collected in the first and last warm month of the year, namely in May
and September. During these two months, 60.6% of all specimens of the six species
were collected. To compare: in other warm months researchers collected 32.2% of all
specimens and in the other seven months of the year only 7.2%.
As for the analysis of the spatial distribution of collecting points in the region,
they cover all geographical zones, such as the lowland, piedmont and highland areas
(fig. 2). The specimens of murids are represented from nine administrative districts (of
Species I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Total
Micromys minutus − − − − − − − − − − − − 0
Apodemus agrarius − − − − 8 6 10 2 15 2 − − 43
Sylvaemus tauricus − − − 25 134 50 52 18 96 3 1 − 379
Sylvaemus sylvaticus − − − − 8 1 9 1 2 − − − 21
Sylvaemus uralensis − − − − 7 − − 1 3 − − − 11
Mus musculus − − − − 14 3 2 − 1 4 − − 24
Mus spicilegus − − − − − − − − − − − − 0
Rattus norvegicus − − − − 2 − − − 2 − − − 4
Total specimens, n 0 0 0 25 173 60 73 22 119 9 1 0 482
Total species, S 0 0 0 1 6 4 4 4 6 3 1 0 6
Fig. 2. Collecting points of the samples.
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13 districts). The highest concentration of the collecting points is observed in mountain
ranges of the Rakhiv and Tiachiv districts. Specimens from four administrative districts
of the region (Velykyi Bereznyi, Mizhhiria, Khust, and Irshava districts) are absent.
However, the collection materials of the two investigated museums informatively com-
plement one another, so they sufficiently reflect the geographical and, in particular, the
altitudinal distribution of the species and cover the most landscape types.
Review of genera, species and samples
The review of the species is based on the two latest rodent fauna checklists of the
Ukrainian Carpathians, prepared by Korchynsky, O.V. in 1988 and Zagorodniuk, I.V.
with co-authors in 1997 (Корчинский, 1988; Загороднюк та ін., 1997), and also on
information contained in the work “Mammals of the Transcarpathian Region
(Ukraine)” (Башта, Потіш, 2007). The taxonomy and nomenclature used in this paper is
the accepted by the Theriological Society of Ukraine.
The Micromys genus is represented in the fauna of Transcarpathia by one spe-
cies ─ Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) (harvest mouse, мишка лучна). This rare spe-
cies wasn’t revealed in the mountains (Загороднюк та ін., 1997) and it prefers wet low-
land meadows with high grass. Sometimes it encounters on treated fields (Корчинский,
1988). There are no specimens of this species from the region in the collections of
NMNH and ZMKNU.
Also the Apodemus genus is represented in the region’s rodent fauna by one spe-
cies ─ Apodemus agarius (Pallas, 1771) (striped field mouse, миша польова). It is a
typical lowland-piedmont species, which is common on covered by shrubs areas and
agricultural lands but avoids dense woodlands (Башта, Потіш, 2007). This species also
was revealed on subalpine meadows of the Borzhava polonina (Корчинский, 1988; За-
городнюк та ін., 1997). “Polonina” is a local name for a segment of the upper belt of
the Carpathians and various mountain ranges on the Balkan Peninsula that has a moder-
ately hilly surface with a flat top and is covered by mountain meadows. A polonina is
usually used as a summer mountain pasture (http: // encyclopedia2. thefreedictionary.
com / Polo-nina). From Transcarpathia there are 43 specimens of this species, 37 of
them are preserved in stocks of NMNH and six in ZMKNU. The specimens were col-
lected on the territory of six administrative districts: Perechyn dist. (n = 13), Tiachiv
dist. (n = 3), Mukachevo dist. (n = 2), Rakhiv dist. (n = 1), Volovets dist. (n = 1) and
Svaliava dist. (n = 1). It should be noticed that for a relatively significant number of
specimens (n = 22) the actual place of collecting is unknown.
The Sylvaemus genus is represented in the fauna of Transcarpathia by three spe-
cies ─ Sylvaemus tauricus (Pallas, 1811) (syn. Apodemus flavicollis, yellow-necked
wood mouse, мишак жовтогрудий), Sylvaemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (syn. Apo-
demus sylvaticus, wood mouse, мишак лісовий) and Sylvaemus uralensis (Pallas, 1811)
(syn. Apodemus microps, pygmy or Ural wood mouse, мишак уральський, або малий).
The yellow-necked wood mouse (S. tauricus) is the most typical for the piedmont
and highland zones. This species has the largest number in beech forests but in conifer-
ous and mixed forests the bank vole Myodes glareolus predominates (Полушина, 1965).
The yellow-necked wood mouse has the largest number (n = 379) of specimens among
the other murid species in the analyzed collections: 301 examples preserved in NMNH
and 69 in ZMKNU. The exact collecting locality of 88 specimens is unknown. The other
samples were collected within nine districts that represent all altitudinal zones: Rakhiv
dist. (n = 125), Tiachiv dist. (n = 69), Perechyn dist. (n = 57), Mukachevo dist. (n = 17),
Volovets dist. (n = 14), Uzhhorod dist. (n = 3), Beregovo dist. (n = 2), Vynogradiv dist.
(n = 2) and Svaliava dist. (n = 2). It is also should be noticed that in the collection of
ZMKNU 20 specimens of S. sylvaticus were redefined as S. tauricus. This case proves
again that species of the genus Sylvaemus morphologically are very close and their iden-
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tification in field conditions is often unreliable. Therefore, accurate identification of
these species is possible only with the help of craniometric parameters.
The wood mouse (S. sylvaticus) is abundant on the lowland and considered as a
rare species in the mountains. This species is often confused with young individuals of
the yellow-necked wood mouse, because morphologically they are very similar
(Корчинский, 1988; Загороднюк, 1993a; Загороднюк та ін., 1997). In the investigated
collections this species is represented by 21 specimens from the Perechyn (n = 8), Ra-
khiv (n = 5), Uzhhorod (n = 2), Beregovo (n = 1) and Vynohradiv (n = 1) districts. The
exact collecting locality of three specimens is unknown.
Earlier S. uralensis was considered as the small form of S. sylvaticus and scien-
tists had no consensus about its systematic position (Корчинский, 1988). As a separate
species of the Ukrainian Carpathians, it was first mentioned in 1980 (Полушина, Воз-
нюк, 1980). Nowadays, the pygmy wood mouse is a species with low abundance and it
has two separate populations ─ lowland and subalpine (Загороднюк та ін., 1997). There
are 11 examples of this species in the collection of NMNH, but they are absent in the
collection of ZMKNU. The samples were collected mainly within lowland districts:
Vynohradiv dist. (n = 3), Beregovo dist. (n = 1) and Uzhhorod dist. (n = 1). The exact
collecting place of five specimens is unknown.
The Mus genus is represented by two species ─ Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1785
(house mouse, миша хатня) and Mus spicilegus Petenyi, 1882 (mound-building mouse,
миша курганцева). In fact, the presence only of the house mouse is reliably confirmed
in the fauna of Transcarpathia. This typical synanthropic species occurs near human set-
tlements. However, in summertime it has temporary nature habitations quite far from
villages, farms or other outbuildings (Корчинский, 1988; Загороднюк та ін., 1997).
The total number of the specimens of this species in the investigated collections is 24,
including 22 in NMNH and only 2 in ZMKNU. The exact place of collection of four
specimens is unknown. The others were collected within five districts: Rakhiv dist.
(n = 10), Tiachiv dist. (n = 4), Vynohradiv dist. (n = 4), Uzhhorod dist. (n = 1) and Bere-
govo dist. (n = 1).
The presence of M. spicilegus is a subject of discussion among zoologists during
the few last years and it is not confirmed fully yet. This species was not mentioned in
the rodent fauna checklist of the Ukrainian Carpathians published by Korchynsky, O.V.
(1988), although it is included into the latest checklist (Загороднюк та ін., 1997) be-
cause of the high probability of its appearance or residence on the lowland part of Trans-
carpathia. The reason for such assumption is the fact of existence of this species in Pan-
nonia and on the Great Hungarian Plain (Загороднюк, 1996), and the Transcarpathian
(or Tysa) Lowland geographically is the part of the latest one (Географічна…, 1990). In
addition, the species distribution to the territory of Trascarpathia is not limited by any
kinds of obvious biogeographical barriers (Загороднюк, Березовский, 1994). Neverthe-
less, Bashta & Potish stated that in 2005–2007 they had already found some colonies of
the species in the Uzhhorod district (Башта, Потіш, 2007). At the same time, there are
no specimens of this species from Transcarpathia in the collections of NMNH and
ZMKNU, and we have no information on its presence in other nature history museums
as well.
The Rattus genus according to the fauna checklist from 1988 (Корчинский,
1988) is represented in the region by two species ─ R. rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) (black
rat, пацюк чорний) and R. norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) (common rat, пацюк манд-
рівний), although finds of R. rattus were not confirmed by factual materials
(Загороднюк та ін., 1997). As it turned out later, the black rat is one of the rarest spe-
cies in the mammal fauna of Ukraine and it has remained only in seaside forests of the
Crimea and in Polissia. Consequently, the records of this species in other parts of
Ukraine and in Transcarpathia in particular were based on observations of melanistic
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forms of R. norvegicus (Загороднюк, 1993b). Thereunder, the species was excluded
from the rodent fauna checklist of the Ukrainian Carpathians in 1997 (Загороднюк та
ін., 1997). There are no specimens of this species in stocks neither NMNH nor
ZMKNU. However, the probability of appearance or finds of R. rattus in the region in
the future can not be rejected.
The common rat R. norvegicus is a typical rare in the wild synanthropic species
(Загороднюк та ін., 1997). The small number of collected specimens of this species
also confirms it: there are two examples in the collection of both NMNH and ZMKNU.
The localities of their collection: Tiachiv dist. (n = 2), Rakhiv dist. (n = 1) and Vyno-
hradiv dist. (n = 1).
Results of the collection analysis
The total number of specimens of mouse-like rodents from Transcarpathia preserved in
the collections of NMNH and ZMKNU is 938 examples, among them 482 (51%) are the
samples of species of the family Muridae. The collection of NMNH is more informative
and it contains 685 specimens of 21 rodent species. According to the collection cata-
logue, this number includes 402 (59%) samples of six species (29%) of murids. The col-
lection of ZMKNU is smaller in amount, but significantly complements the collection of
NMNH, especially on the information about the geographical distribution of species.
According to the collection index, there are 253 samples of 14 rodent species in the col-
lections of ZMKNU, including 80 (32%) specimens of five species (38%) of the family
Muridae.
The taxonomic analysis of the collections showed that from Transcarpathia only
four genera of the family Muridae are represented in the collections. Species of the ge-
nus Micromys are absent. Among the other genera, in terms of species richness the ge-
nus Sylvaemus takes the first place, which is represented in the fauna of Transcarpathia
by three species: S. tauricus, S. sylvaticus and S. uralensis. The other genera are repre-
sented only by one species each, but the chance of finds of one more species for genera
Mus and Rattus (M. spicilegus and R. rattus) is not declined though. In the investigated
collections, only one species (S. tauricus) has a representative amount of specimens
(n = 379).
The biogeographical analysis of the collections was carried out in the context of
the species’ distribution according to the altitude (lowland, piedmont and highland). We
can suggest that the altitudinal zoning is probably not the main determining factor on the
distribution of synanthropic species M. musculus and R. norvegicus. It might be con-
firmed by the presence of collecting points in all of the zones of the region. Perhaps, this
is because the conditions of anthropogenic niches do not differ significantly in the low-
land and the mountains.
According to the literature, related species of wood mice are common throughout
the region with a certain spatial differentiation. The collection data of the investigated
museums also confirm this statement: collecting points of Sylvaemus tauricus and Syl-
vaemus sylvaticus are located in all altitudinal zones. However, it is known from the
literature that the yellow-necked wood mouse is much numerous in the piedmont and
highland zones, and the wood mouse mostly in the lowland areas and also in some of the
highland places. The pygmy wood mouse, as it was mentioned earlier, has two separate
lowland and subalpine populations.
Most of the collecting points of Apodemus agrarius are located in the lowland and
piedmont zones but single examples were found in the highland zone. In addition, pub-
lished earlier sources suggest that the only part of the Ukrainian Carpathians where this
species reaches the subalpine belt is the Borzhava polonina (Корчинский, 1988; Заго-
роднюк та ін., 1997).
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Thus, the research showed that both of the analyzed collections of rodents well
represent the species composition and relative number of murids. The collections also
allow to form samples for biogeographical analysis of distribution and in some species
to study of their variability as well. In addition, the analysis showed that the collections
were enriched not in a random manner and the collecting labors significantly linked with
certain periods of year and certain groups of locations.
The author would like to thank Zagorodniuk, I.V. (National Museum of Natural His-
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Баркасі З.
МИШЕВІ ГРИЗУНИ (MURIFORMES, MURIDAE) ІЗ ЗАКАРПАТТЯ У КОЛЕКЦІЯХ
ЗООЛОГІЧНИХ МУЗЕЇВ КИЄВА
У наукових фондах Національного науково-природничого музею НАН України та Зоологічного му-
зею Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка зберігаються 482 зразки 6 видів
гризунів родини Muridae, зібрані з 1940 до 1990 року. Зборами охоплено всі географічні зони регіону.
В статті подано загальну характеристику досліджених колекцій, огляд родів і видів мишевих у світлі
останніх списків родентофауни регіону. Таксономічний аналіз колекцій показав, що за показником
видового багатства перше місце посідає рід лісових мишаків Sylvaemus, який представлений у фауні
Закарпаття трьома видами ─ Sylvaemus tauricus, S. sylvaticus та S. uralensis. За загальною кількістю
відомих зразків із Закарпаття у колекціях повноцінно представлений вид Sylvaemus tauricus (n = 379).
Біогеографічний аналіз колекцій та літературних відомостей дозволяють зробити припущення, що
близькі види мишаків поширені по всій території області з певною просторовою диференціацією:
S. tauricus чисельніший у передгірному і гірському поясах, а S. sylvaticus ─ на рівнині.
Ключові слова : музейні колекції, гризуни, Muridae, Закарпаття, Україна.
Баркаси З.
МЫШИНЫЕ ГРЫЗУНЫ (MURIFORMES, MURIDAE) ИЗ ЗАКАРПАТЬЯ В КОЛЛЕКЦИЯХ
ЗООЛОГИЧЕСКИХ МУЗЕЕВ КИЕВА
В научных фондах Национального научно-природоведческого музея НАН Украины и Зоологического
музея Киевского национального университета имени Тараса Шевченко хранятся 482 образца 6 видов
грызунов семейства Muridae, собранных с 1940 по 1990 год. Сборами охвачены все географические
зоны региона. В статье представлена общая характеристика исследованных коллекций, обзор родов и
видов мышиных в свете последних списков родентофауны региона. Таксономический анализ коллек-
ций показал, что по показателю видового богатства первое место занимает род лесных мышей Syl-
vaemus, который представлен в фауне Закарпатья тремя видами ─ S. tauricus, S. sylvaticus и
S. uralensis. По общему количеству известных образцов из Закарпатья в коллекциях полноценно
представлен вид S. tauricus (n = 379). Биогеографический анализ коллекций и литературных сведений
позволяют предполагать, что близкие виды мышей распространены по всей территории области с
определенной пространственной дифференциацией: S. tauricus более численный в предгорном и
горном поясах, а S. sylvaticus ─ на равнине.
Ключевые слова : музейные коллекции, грызуны, Muridae, Закарпатье, Украина.
Contact:
Zoltan Barkasi,
National Museum of Natural History NAS Ukraine,
15 B. Khmelnitsky Str., Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine.
E-mail: zlbarkasi@ukr.net
Контакт:
Золтан Баркасі,
Національний науково-природничий музей НАН України,
вул. Б. Хмельницького, 15, Київ, 01601 Україна.
E-mail: zlbarkasi@ukr.net
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