Clethrionomys centralis Miller, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:373.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kazakh. S.S. R., Taldy-Kurgansk. Obi., Koksu valley, Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns .

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to Tien Shan and Dzhungarsk. Alatau Mtns. (U.S. S. R. and Sinkiang, China).

COMMENT: Earlier literature refers to these voles as frater (Thomas, 1908). Corbet, 1978:99, determined that frater is a junior synonym of centralis, which had been incorrectly referred to rutilus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:661. Corbet, 1978:99, placed centralis as a synonym of glareolus, but Orlov, 1968, [Probl. Evolution], 1:184-194, Orlov and Kryukova, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 26, and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977, [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8): l-502, provided evidence of its specific distinctness. Still referred to in Russian literature as frater (RSH, OLR).