Ermakov O.A., Mishta A.V., Sheftel B.I., Obolenskaya E.V., Lada G.A., Bystrakova N.V., Ruchin A.B., Lissovsky A.A. 2020. Does the Mediterranean water shrew Neomys anomalus (Soricidae, Eulipotyphla) expand the eastern part of the distribution range? // Russian J. Theriol. Vol.19. No.2. P.112–130 [in English].
Oleg A. Ermakov [oaermakov@list.ru], Natalia V. Bystrakova [natvibys@mail.ru], Penza State University, Krasnaya 40, Penza 440026, Russia; Alina V. Mishta [amishta@izan.kiev.ua], I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, B. Khmelnytskogo 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine; Boris I. Sheftel [borissheftel@yahoo.com], Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Leninskiy pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia; Georgiy A. Lada [esculenta@mail.ru], Derzhavin Tambov State University, Internatsional'naya 33, Tambov 392000, Russia; Alexander B. Ruchin [ruchin.alexander@gmail.com], Joint Directorate of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park “Smolny”, Krasnaya 30, Saransk 430005, Russia; Ekaterina V. Obolenskaya [obolenskaya@zmmu.msu.ru], Andrey A. Lissovsky [andlis@zmmu.msu.ru], Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 2, Moscow 125009, Russia.
doi: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.19.2.02
ABSTRACT. The Mediterranean water shrew Neomys anomalus is sparsely distributed across the major part of Eastern Europe. There is a large amount of new information about the enlargement of the distribution range of the species during last 2 to 3 decades. We analysed species distribution, variation of cytochrome b gene and character of appearance of new records on species distribution. We suggest that the “expansion” of the Mediterranean water shrew is rather a result of more thorough faunal studies than of a natural expansion of the species range.
KEY WORDS: Neomys anomalus, distribution, cytochrome b, species distribution modelling, Eastern Europe.