Microtus gud Satunin, 1909 . Izv. Kavkas. Mus., 4:272.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Gruzinsk. S.S. R. (Georgia), Gudauri, S. of Krestovyi Pass (Caucasus Range) .

DISTRIBUTION: Caucasus Mtns. (U.S. S.R. and N.E. Turkey).

COMMENT: Subgenus Chionomys of Anderson, 1960:202; related to nivalis and roberti; see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977, [Voles (Microtinae), Fauna U.S. S.R.], Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad, 3(8): l-502, and Corbet, 1978:112. Chaline, 1974, included Chionomys within subgenus Suranomys, but Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:327, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:216, considered Chionomys a full genus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080015001.