Allactaga balikunica Hsia and Fang, 1964 . Acta Zootaxon. Sin., 6: 16.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Xinjiang, Balikun .

DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia, from Altai Sumon east to Bordzon-Gobi (Sokolov et al., 1981a), and NE Xinjiang, China (Ma et al., 1987).

SYNONYMS: nataliae .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Orientallactaga . Closely related to A. bullata, with which it is sympatric in S Mongolia. A. nataliae Sokolov, 1981 is a junior synonym of A. balikunica (see Sokolov and Shenbrot, 1987a).