Spalax giganteus Nehring, 1898 . Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 169.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Daghestan, W shore of Caspian Sea, near MakhachKaly .

DISTRIBUTION: Isolated populations in steppes NW of the Caspian Sea and in Kazakhstan between the Volga River and W margin of the Caspian Sea between the Dnepr and Ural rivers (see Topachevskii, 1969; Vorontsov et al., 1977b).

SYNONYMS: uralensis .

COMMENTS: Revised by Topachevskii (1969) and listed as a separate species by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Geographic range is parapatric with that of S. microphthalmus (Corbet, 1978c) .