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).