Pitymys daghestanicus (Shidlovskii, 1919) . Raboty Zemskoi Opytnoi Stantsi, 2: 12.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Dagestansk. A.S.S. R., Gunibsk. Okr., Karda .

DISTRIBUTION: Daghestan, E. Caucasus Mts. (U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus probably Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974; regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, as a synonym of subterraneus, and by Corbet, 1978:109, of majori; Kratochvil and Kral, 1974, Zool. Listy, 23:289-302, provided evidence of specific distinctness.