Allocricetulus curtatus Allen, 1925 . Am. Mus. Novit., 179:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, W Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), Iren Dabasu (= Ehrlien) .

DISTRIBUTION: China; "Steppes of Mongolia north of the Altai and eastwards to Inner Mongolia " (Corbet, 1978c:92); also recorded from N Xinjiang Prov. in NW China (Ma et al., 1987), Ningxia (Qin, 1991), and Anhui (Liu et al., 1985).

COMMENTS: Ma et al. (1987) treated curtatus as a subspecies of A. eversmanni, but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Corbet and Hill (1991) continued to recognize it as a separate species.