Microtus schelkovnikovi (Satunin, 1907)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 529

Microtus schelkovnikovi (Satunin, 1907) . Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 3, 1:242.

TYPE LOCALITY: Azerbaijan, Talysk Mtns, near village of Dzhi .

DISTRIBUTION: S Azerbaijan, Talysk and Elburz Mtns; limits of range unknown.

SYNONYMS: dorothea.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola , sole member of its own species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Lumped under Pitymys subterraneus by Ellerman Morrison-Scott (1951), but its validity as a separate species has been documented by Kratochvil (1970) and Kratochvil and Kràl (1974) and is so listed in faunal catalogues ( Corbet, 1978c; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987). The name kaznakovi may be valid for this species ( Corbet, 1984), but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) avoided its use and cited Gromov and Polyakov (1977) for the opinion that it belongs with Alticola . Chromosomal data summarized by Zima and Krâl (1984a) and Achverdjan et al. (1992).