Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 13: 13.

REVIEWED BY: M. L. Johnson (MLJ).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Bering Sea, Hall Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Hall and St. Matthew Isis. (Alaska, U.S.A.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Stenocranius; see Rausch and Rausch, 1968, Z. Saugetierk., 36:65-99. Related to miurus of the Alaskan mainland; see Fedyk, 1970, Acta Theriol., 15: 143-152, Nelson, 1931, J. Mammal., 12:311, and Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, p. 169. MLJ considers miurus conspecific with abbreviatus .