Microtus brandti (Radde, 1861) . Melanges Biol. Acad. St. Petersb., 3:683.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Chitinsk. Obi., near Tarei-Nor (Lake) .

DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia, Transbaikalia (U.S. S. R.), Inner Mongolia, Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Hopei (China) (SW).

COMMENT: Subgenus Lasiopodomys; see Chaline, 1974, and Chaline and Mein, 1979. Regarded as full genus by Erbaeva, 1976, Trudy Zool. Inst., Leningr., 66:107-116, Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:322, Repenning, 1980, Can. J. Anthro., 1:37 -44, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:214; also see Ognev, 1950, [Mamm. U.S. S.R., Adjac. Count.], Acad. Sci. Moscow, 7:292-293.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080004001.