Dr. Éva Murai szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 2. 1984 (Budapest, 1984)
Štollmann, A.: Terrestrial small mammals in the Čergov Mountains (Western Carpathians, Czechoslovakia)
Terrestrial small mammals in the Cergov Mountains (Western Carpathians, Czechoslovakia)* By A. STOLLMANN (Received November 28, 1983) The paper is dedicated to the memory of Tibor WEISZ (1914—1983). ABSTRACT. The occurrence of 5 species of insectivores: Sorex araneus , S. mi nutus, S. alpinus, Neomys fodiens , N. anomalus and 7 species of rodents: Muscardinus avellanarius, Sicista betulina , Apodemus agrárius, A. flavicollis , Clethrionomys glareolus , Fitymys subterraneus and Microtus arvalis in the Cergov Mts. range is reported. A general review of the mammals of the Bardejov district has been given by WEISZ (1976). His list also contains terrestrial small mammals from the Cergov Mts. Besides WEISZ, specialists of the Institute of Parasitology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences have also studied small mammals and their parasites (HODKOVÁ, 1979). Terrestrial small mammals were also collected by zoologists of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (STOLLMANN & RANDIK, 1979), in the environs of the settlements of Cirí and Ruská Vol'a. Within the framework of an agreement between the Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and the Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Research Station Stare Hory an intensive investigation of the insectivores and rodents of the Cergov Mts. was carried out during the years 1980-1982. MATERIAL AND METHOD Three field trips were made to trap small mammals at the following sites and times: 1) Hertnik, valley of Hertnicky' potok stream, 26-28 Aug. , 1980; 2) Lenartov, valley of Vecny potok stream, 10-12 Nov., 1981 and 20-23 April, 1982; 3) Livov, valley of Vic í potok stream, 20-23 April, 1982. Mammals were trapped along standard lines of 50 traps of the currently available commercial type for 1-4 nights (4650 traps/nights in total). In this way we have obtained a total of 382 specimens of 11 species of terrestrial small mammals (Table 1). For a description of the landscape, see MÉSZÁROS & STOLLMANN (1984). Report No. 13 from the project "Complex parasitological studies on small mammal populations", a co-operation between the Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; and the Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Research Station Stare Hory.
