Chionomys gud (Satunin, 1909) . Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 4:272.

TYPE LOCALITY: Georgia, Caucasus, Gudauri, S of Krestovyi Pass .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from Caucasus Mtns, and NE Turkey.

SYNONYMS: gotschobi, ighesicus, lasistanius, lucidus, neujukovi, oseticus.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c). Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c) listed gotschobi and ighesicus as synonyms of nivalis, but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) included them in C. gud .