Volemys Zagorodnyuk, 1990

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 534

Volemys Zagorodnyuk, 1990 . Vestn. Zool., 2:28.

TYPE SPECIES: Microtus musseri Lawrence, 1982 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Arvicolini . A small group of alpine or subalpine species isolated on high mountains in SW China, N Burma and on Taiwan. All have traditionally been placed in Microtus , although their phylogenetic relationships with other species in that genus were regarded as obscure or equivocal (see the discussion in Zagorodnyuk, 1990).