Alticola argentatus (Severtzov, 1879)

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 : 502-503

Alticola argentatus (Severtzov, 1879) . Izv. Soc. Nat. Anthrop. Etnogr., 8, 2:82.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, Chimkentskaia Obi., Karatau Mtns, Mashat .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountainous region from Xinjiang, NW China ( Ma et al., 1987), southwest through the Dzhungarski Alatau, the Talasskiy Alatau, the Tien Shan, Pamirs, and into the mountains of N Afghanistan, N Pakistan, and N India.

SYNONYMS: alaica, argurus , blanfordi , gracilis , lahulis, leucura , longicauda , longicaudata, parvidens , phasma , rosanvi, saurica, shnitnikovi, severtzovi , subluteus, villosa , worthingtoni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Included in A. roylei by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c), but separated as a species by Rossolimo (1989), who recognized blanfordi , phasma , severtzovi , subluteus, and worthingtoni as subspecies. Attribution of synonyms follows Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987).