Pitymys thomasi (Barrett-Hamilton, 1903). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11:306. TYPE LOCALITY: Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Vranici. DISTRIBUTION: S. coastal Yugoslavia; Albania and adjacent Greece. COMMENT: Subgenus Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974. Includes atticus; see Petrov and Zivkovic, 1979, Biosystematika, 5(1):113— 125; and Corbet, 1978:110. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, as a synonym of duodecimcostatus; evidence of specific distinctness provided by Petrov and Zivkovic, 1972, Saugetierk. Mitt., 20:249-258.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 503, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034