Alticola (Aschizomys) macrotis (Radde 1862)

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 : 960

Alticola (Aschizomys) macrotis (Radde 1862)

[Thomasomys] macrotis Radde 1862 , Reise in den Suden von Ost-Sibierien, Vol. 1: 196.

Type Locality: Russia, S Siberia, S Krasnoyarsk Krai, Vostochnyy Sayan Mtns.

Vernacular Names: Large-eared Mountain Vole.

Synonyms: Alticola (Aschizomys) altaica Vinogadov 1933 ; Alticola (Aschizomys) fetisovi Galkina and Epifantseva 1988 ; Alticola (Aschizomys) vinogradovi Rasorenova 1933 .

Distribution: Altai of extreme NW Xinjiang and S Siberia, eastward through Tuvinskaya (Tuva region) and Sayan Mtns, to highlands in Lake Baikal region.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Aschizomys . Closely related to the northern A. lemminus (see above), and either not allocated to subgenus ( Ellerman, 1941), placed it in the subgenus Alticola ( Ognev, 1964) , or considered under the subgenus Aschizomys ( Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987). Galkina and Epifantseva (1988) described fetisovi as species, but others have included it in A. macrotis or considered its status unclear (Vasil’eva, 1999); Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1998) persuasively treated fetisovi as a synonym. Chromosomal variation reported by Bolshakov et al. (1985).