List of land and freshwater animal species 



LEPUS TIMIDUS L. 



sbsp. hiberniciis sbsp. scoticus Hilzh. /. typ. 



Bell (Blue, Mountain, or Varying Hare) 



Ireland. Scotland. Scand., N Russ. 



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Many sbspp. 



One or two more south- 

 ern sbspp. in the Old 

 World. 



sbsp. othus Merr.i 

 (Tundra Hare) 

 W Alas. 



C Russ.-Kamch., 

 Sakhal., N Japan, 

 Kuril. 



sbsp. arcticus Ross^ (Arctic 



Hare) 



NW Terr.-Labr., Nfld., 



arctic isl., Greenl. 



Several sbspp. 

 Alaskan islands. 



MICROTUS OECONOMUS Pall. 



(Tundra Vole; Root Vole) 



sbsp. ratticeps f. typ. sbsp. yakutatensis 



Keys. & Bias. (and several sbspp.) Merr. 



Scand., Russ., Sib., E to Kamch., Alas. 



N C. Eur. Kuril. 



sbsp. tnacfarlani Merr. 

 NW Terr. 



MUS MUSCULUS L. 



(House Mouse) 



Cosmopolitan, probably native of Mediterr., E Eur. & Asia. 

 Eur. (generally). f N & C Amer. (generally). 



RATTUS NORVEGicus Bcrkcnh. 

 (Norway or Brown Rat) 



Cosmopolitan, possibly native of Palaearctic Asia. 



t Eur. (generally). 



t N & C Amer. (generally). 



RATTUS RATTUS L. 



(Black or House Rat) 



Almost cosmopolitan, native of Asia. 

 t Eur. (formerly generally). f N Amer. (both coasts). 



Aves — Birds 



The main source was Peters (I-VI, 1931-48), who gives an explicit, conservative 

 account with high demands on "the species". For the Passer if ormes, which Peters 

 did not manage to complete before his death, Hartert (1910-38) and the North 



Usually regarded as distinct species. 



