Alticola macrotis Radde, 1862

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 : 503

Alticola macrotis Radde, 1862 . Reise in den Süden von Ost-Sibierien, 1:196.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, S Krasnoyarsk Krai, E Sayan Mtns .

DISTRIBUTION: From Altai (Siberia and Xinjiang) and Sayan Mtns east and northeast through N Mongolia and Lake Baikal region to Region of Olekminski in Yakutsk, Russia.

SYNONYMS: altaica , fetisovi, vicina, vinogradovi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Ognev (1964) placed this species in the subgenus Alticola , but Gromov and Polyakov (1977) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) listed it under the subgenus Aschizomys . We follow Ognev until the phylogenetic position of lemminus , the type-species of Aschizomys , is defined relative to species of Alticola .