Lasiopodomys brandtii (Radde 1861)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 984

Lasiopodomys brandtii (Radde 1861)

[Arvicola] brandtii Radde 1861 , Melanges Biol. Acad. St. Petersbourg, Vol. 3: 683.

Type Locality: NE Mongolia, near Tarei-Nor (G. M. Allen, 1940).

Vernacular Names: Brandt's Vole.

Synonyms: Lasiopodomys aga (Kastschenko 1912) ; Lasiopodomys hangaicus Bannikov 1948 ; Lasiopodomys warringtoni (Miller 1913) .

Distribution: Mongolia and adjacent Transbaikalia, Russia; Nei Mongol, Jilin, and Hebei provinces, NE China ( Zhang et al., 1997).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: G. M. Allen (1940) provided a detailed description of the species; phallic morphology documented by Yang et al. (1992).