Alticola barakshin Bannikov, 1947 . Bull. Moscow Soc. Nat., Biol., 52, 4:217.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mongolia, Gobi Altai Mtns, Gurvan Saikhan Ridge, Dzun Saikhan .

DISTRIBUTION: From Tuva region in Russia east through W and S Mongolia; probably occurs in adjoining Chinese regions (see Rossolimo et al., 1988).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Included in A. stoliczkanus by Corbet (1978c) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), but revised as a separate species by Rossolimo et al. (1988). Chromosomal data provided by Yatsenko (1980).