Eolagurus przewalskii (Büchner 1889)

[Eolagurus] przewalskii (Büchner 1889), Wiss. Res. Przewalski Cent.-Asien Reisen, Zool., I: (Saugeth.): 127.

Type Locality: China, Qinghai, Tsaidam region, shore of Iche-zaidemin Nor.

Vernacular Names: Przewalski's Steppe Lemming.

Distribution: Montane meadows and river banks, from S Xinjiang and N Xizang, W China, east through Quinghai and N Gansu to W and S Mongolia and Nei Mongol; limits unknown.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: A distinctive species united with E. luteus by Corbet (1978c) but treated as separate by most systematists (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov et al., 1995a). Gromov and Polyakov’s (1977) redescription of E. przewalskii and illustrations of crania and dentitions unequivocally discriminate the two, whose ranges overlap in the lakes region of W Mongolia.