Microtus tatricus Kratochvil, 1952 . Acta Acad. Sci. Nat. Moravo-Siles., 24: 155 -194.

TYPE LOCALITY: Czechoslovakia, Poprad Dist., Velka Studena Dolina valley, High Tatra Mtns .

DISTRIBUTION: W and E Carpathian Mtns; montane spruce forest of Tatra Mtns between Czechoslovakia and Poland, Pilsko Mtn, and Beslksid Ziwiecki Mtns; also W Ukraine (see Zagorodnyuk, 1988; Zagorodnyuk et al., 1992).

SYNONYMS: zykovi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola, subterraneus species group sensu Chaline et al. (1988) . Reviewed by Corbet (1984) and Niethammer (1982/). Chromosomal data evaluated by Zima and Krâl (1984a). Taxonomy, geographic distribution, and morphological variation in context of discriminating species of the subgenus Terricola were covered by Zagorodnyuk (1989), who also named the subspecies zykovi, and Zagorodnyuk et al. (1992).