Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, 1770 . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop., 14:1.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Voronezhsk. Obi., Novokhoper Steppe .

DISTRIBUTION: Ukraine and S. Russia, southwest to Bulgaria and Greece, east to Volga and N.C. Caucasus.

COMMENT: Includes arenarius, polonicus (=zemni), and graecus; see Corbet, 1978:130. OLR follows Topachevskii, 1969, in [Fauna S.S.S.R., Mammals], n.s., 3(3):99, in regarding these forms as distinct species, as did Gromov and Baranova, 1981:131-132.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410009001003001.