14 



Rainer Hutterer & Gustav Peters 



RODENTIA 

 Sciuridae 



Sciurus ingrami sebastiani Miiller & Vesmanis, 1971 

 Senckenberg. biol. 52: 378 



Holotype. ZFMK 2009.622 (formerly Univ. Saarbriick- 

 en 0535), adult male, skin and skull; rainforest above the 

 electric power station, 500 m, San Sebastiao Island 

 (23°50'S, 45°20'W), Sao Paulo State, Brazil, collected by 

 E. & P. Miiller, E.B. Bohaler & F. Silva, Oct 1964, field 

 no. 234. 



Paratypes. ZFMK 2009.623 - 2009.628, 6 skins, 3 skulls, 

 same locality and collectors, 1964-1967. 

 Current name. This taxon was overlooked by Thoring- 

 ton & Hoffmann (2005), and its status therefore not eval- 

 uated. They included ingrami as a subspecies in Sciurus 

 aestuans, however, Miiller & Vesmanis (1971) demon- 

 strated that sebastiani was larger in cranial measurements 

 than ingrami from the mainland, and that its body coloura- 

 tion was darker. Here we tentatively accept the taxon as 

 a valid island form as Sciurus aestuans sebastiani Miiller 

 & Vesmanis, 1971. 



Comments. Holotype and paratypes were initially stored 

 at the Department of Biogeography at Saarbriicken Uni- 

 versity, then transferred to the University of Trier, and fi- 

 nally donated to the ZFMK in 2009. Two further 

 paratypes are in SMF (SMF 40557-8). 



Sciurus vulgaris hoffmanni Valverde, 1967 

 Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Biol. 65: 225 

 Paratype. ZFMK 92.518, adult male, skin and skull; La 

 Perdiz, Sierra de Espuna, Alhama de Murcia, Spain, col- 

 lected by J. A. Valverde, 25 Apr 1967, field no. 979. 

 Current name. Sciurus vulgaris hoffmanni Valverde, 

 1967 is antedated by Sciurus aestuans hoffmanni Peters, 

 1864, a Central American squirrel (Peters 1864, Elliot 

 1904). Both homonyms were listed by Thorington & Hoff- 

 mann (2005) without comment. A replacement name is 

 therefore required for the strikingly large and pale squir- 

 rel of the Sierra de Espuna. It shall be further on known 

 as Sciurus vulgaris valverdei Hutterer nom. nov., in ho- 

 nour of its describer, J. A. Valverde. 

 Comments. Holotype is no. 985 in the Estacion Biolog- 

 ica de Donana, Sevilla. Measurements of paratype 979 

 were included in Valverde (1967); the specimen was do- 

 nated by J. A. Valverde to J. Niethammer and remained 

 in his private collection until it was passed to the ZFMK 

 in 1992. 



Gliridae 



Dryomys nitedula aspromontis Lehmann, 1964 

 Sitzber. Ges. naturf. Freude Berl. (N.F.) 4: 33, fig. 2 



Bonn zoological Bulletin 59: 3-27 



Holotype. ZFMK 63.510, adult male, skin and skull; 

 Gambarie d'Aspromonte, Calabria, Italy, collected by E. 

 von Lehmann, 13 Aug 1963, field no. 92. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 63.508, 63.509, 63.511 - 63.513, 3 

 males, 2 females, skins and skulls, same locality and col- 

 lector as holotype, 12-13 Aug 1963, field nos. 85-86, 

 93-95. 



Current name. Dryomys nitedula (Pallas, 1778). 



Dryomys nitedula diamesus Lehmann, 1959 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 10: 4 (7 Sept) 



Holotype. ZFMK 58.211, male, skin and skull; Ivanova 

 Kurita, Montenegro, former Yugoslavia, collected by E. 

 von Lehmann, 16 Sept 1958, field no. 28. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 58.210, 58.212, 1 male, 1 female, skins 

 and skulls, same locality and collector as holotype, 14-15 

 Sept 1958, field nos. 16, 23. 

 Current name. Dryomys nitedula (Pallas, 1778). 

 Comments. Krystufek (1985) discussed the status of the 

 species in former Yugoslavia. 



Muscardinus avellanarius abanticus Kivanc, 1983 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 34: 421, figs. 2, 3 (14 Dec) 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 83.127, 83.128, females, skins and 

 skulls; Abant, Vil. Bolu, Turkey, collected by E. Kivanc, 

 6 Aug 1980 and 5 July 1981, field nos. EK 84, EK63. 

 Current name. Muscardinus avellanarius abanticus Ki- 

 vanc, 1983. 



Comments. Holotype in the collection of the Biology De- 

 partment in the Natural Sciences Faculty of Ankara Univ. 



Muscardinus avellanarius kroecki G. Niethammer & 

 Bohmann, 1950 



Neue Ergebnisse und Probleme der Zoologie (Klatt-Fest- 

 schrift), Leipzig, p. 661 



Holotype. ZFMK 74.272, unsexed skin; Vitosa, 1500 m, 

 10 km S Sofia, Bulgaria, collected by A. Kroeck, 26 Aug 

 1944, field no. 81, at the same time no. 173/44 of the 

 Bohmann collection. Donated to Museum Koenig by 

 Bohmann in Oct 1974. 



Current name. Muscardinus a. avellanarius (Storch 

 1978). 



Nesomyidae 



Petromyscus collinus kurzi Lehmann, 1955 



Bonn. zool. Beitr. 6: 171 (31 Dec) 



Holotype. ZFMK 55.75, male, skin and skull; Renoster- 



berg, Kaoko-veld, Namibia, collected by W. Hoesch, 26 



Mar 1955, field no. 1256. 



Paratypes. ZFMK 55.79, 55.455, 55.456, skins and skulls, 

 same locality, collector and date as holotype. 

 Current name. Petromyscus collinus (Thomas & Hinton, 

 1925), see Musser & Carleton (2005). 



©ZFMK 



