Clethrionomys centralis Miller, 1906

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 480-481

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scientific name	Clethrionomys centralis Miller, 1906
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Clethrionomys centralis Miller, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:373.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kazakh. S.S. R., Taldy-Kurgansk. Obi., Koksu valley, Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns .

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to Tien Shan and Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns. ( U.S. S. R. and Sinkiang, China).

COMMENT: Earlier literature refers to these voles as frater (Thomas, 1908). Corbet, 1978:99, determined that frater is a junior synonym of centralis , which had been incorrectly referred to rutilus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:661. Corbet, 1978:99, placed centralis as a synonym of glareolus , but Orlov, 1968, [Probl. Evolution], 1:184-194, Orlov and Kryukova, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 26, and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977, [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8): l-502, provided evidence of its specific distinctness. Still referred to in Russian literature as frater (RSH, OLR).

References

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).