Sicista subtilis (Pallas, 1773)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 497-498

Sicista subtilis (Pallas, 1773) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 1 (2):705.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Kurgan Oblast, on Tobol River near Kaminskaya Kur'ya (suburb), on road from Zverinogolovskoye to Kurgan ( Ognev, 1963b:27) .

DISTRIBUTION: Steppes from E Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Rumania through S Russia, N Kazakhstan, and SW Sibiria to the Altai Range, Lake Balkhash, Lake Baikal, and NW Xinjiang, China (see Li and Wang, 1981; and Ma et al., 1987). In former USSR see Kuznetsov (1965) and Sludskii (1977).

SYNONYMS: interstriatus , interzonus , lineatus , loriger , nordmanni , pallida, siberica, tripartitus , tristriatus , trizona, vaga, virgulosus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: Type specimen was probably not preserved ( Ognev, 1963b:27). Karyology studied by Sokolov et al. (1986a). Review and distribution in Europe provided by Pucek (1982). See comment under S. severtzovi .