Microtus schelkovnikovi (Satunin, 1907) . Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 3, 1:242.

TYPE LOCALITY: Azerbaijan, Talysk Mtns, near village of Dzhi .

DISTRIBUTION: S Azerbaijan, Talysk and Elburz Mtns; limits of range unknown.

SYNONYMS: dorothea.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola, sole member of its own species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Lumped under Pitymys subterraneus by Ellerman Morrison-Scott (1951), but its validity as a separate species has been documented by Kratochvil (1970) and Kratochvil and Kràl (1974) and is so listed in faunal catalogues (Corbet, 1978c; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987). The name kaznakovi may be valid for this species (Corbet, 1984), but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) avoided its use and cited Gromov and Polyakov (1977) for the opinion that it belongs with Alticola . Chromosomal data summarized by Zima and Krâl (1984a) and Achverdjan et al. (1992).