Sicista pseudonapaea Strautman, 1949

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 560-594 : 564

Sicista pseudonapaea Strautman, 1949 . Vestn. Akad. Nauk Kazakh. S.S.R., 5:109.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., E. Kazakhstan, Altai Mtns., N. slope of Narym Range, Katon-Karagai .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga of Altai Mtns. ( U.S. S. R.); probably W. China and N.W. Mongolia.

COMMENT: Bobrinskii et al., 1965 [Key to the Mammals of the U.S. S. R.], Moscow, and Sokolov et al., 1980:38, considered this species distinct, but see Gromov et al., 1963, [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S. R.], Moscow, 2 vols., and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:111, who included pseudonapaea in betulina .