Spermophilus alashanicus Buchner, 1888 . Wiss. Res. Przewalski Cent. Asien Zool. Th. I: Saugeth., p. 11.

TYPE LOCALITY: N. China, S. Alashan Desert .

DISTRIBUTION: S.C. Mongolia; Alashan and E. Nan Shan (N. China).

COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus; see Gromov et al., 1965:208. Placed by Corbet, 1978, in dauricus; Orlov and Davaa, 1975, pp. 8-9, in [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Orlov, ed., "Nauka," Moscow, provided evidence of specific distinctness.