Ellobius tancrei Blasius, 1884 . Zool. Anz., 7:197.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, Zaissan Lake Valley, Kendyrlik (= Przevalskoie) .

DISTRIBUTION: From NE Turkmenistan (Yakimenko and Lyapunova, 1986) and Uzbekistan east through E Kazakhstan to E China (Xinjiang and Nei Mongolia) and Mongol.

SYNONYMS: coenosus, fusciceps, fuscipes, kastschenkoi, ognevi, ursulus.

COMMENTS: Included in E. talpinus by Corbet (1978c) but now regarded as a distinct species whose geographic range is allopatric to that of E. talpinus (see references in Corbet, 1984; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Yakimenko and Lyapunova, 1986). Chromosomal contrasts with E. talpinus recorded by Yakimenko and Lyapunova (1986), comparisons with E. alaicus reported by Lyapunova et al. (1990).