Lemmus amurensis Vinogradov, 1924 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 14:186.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, Pikan, on River Zeya, a tributary of the Amur River .

DISTRIBUTION: Larch taiga of E Siberia, from east of Lake Baikal through the upper Amur River basin, and north in the Verkhoyansk and Cherskogo Mtns to the River Omolon (see Chernyavskii et al., 1980).

SYNONYMS: ognevi.

COMMENTS: A distinctive species revised by Chernyavskii et al. (1980). Additional chromosomal data analyzed by Gileva et al. (1984) in context of distinguishing species of Lemmus .