Micromys minutus - #4891

From NW Spain through most of Europe (including Thrace region of Turkey, but missing from the Alps, Portugal, and most of Sweden, Norway, Italy, and Spain), across Siberia to Ussuri region and Korea, north to about 65°E in European Russia and Yakutia, south to N edge of Caucasus and N Mongolia; isolated ranges in NW China (Xinjiang) and throughout S and NE China (from SE Xizang in west to Heilongjiang and Nei Mongol in far northeast); south to NW Vietnam, N Burma, and NE India (Meghalaya and Nagaland). Island distributions include Britain; Texel, Terschelling, and Ameland off coast of Netherlands in Wadden Sea; Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Tsushima), Quelpart Isl (Korea), and Taiwan. Possibly introduced to the Japanese Isls because no fossils have ever been found while all the Japanese endemic muroids are represented by Pleistocene and Holocene fossils. The species also occurs in Great Britain where it was also probably introduced.