Mus hortulanus Nordmann, 1840 . In Demidoff Voy. Russie, 3:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., N. Caucasus .

DISTRIBUTION: Austria; Yugoslavia; trans-Caucasian U.S. S.R.

COMMENT: Considered a species distinct from musculus by Marshall and Sage, 1981, Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond., 47: 18.