Sicista concolor

Sicista concolor (Büchner, 1892). Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 35(3):107. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Gansu, N slope of the mountains of Xining, Guiduisha. DISTRIBUTION: China: Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, and W Sichuan (Ma et al., 1987; Wang, 1990; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990); India; Kashmir; and N Pakistan. SYNONYMS: flavus, leathemi, weigoldi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). COMMENTS: S. concolor has been reported from the Chinese provinces of Heilongjinag and Jilin (Yang et al., 1991); the relationship of these populations to S. caudata needs further study. Does not include S. armenica , S. caucasico, S. caudata, S. kazbegica, S. kluchorica, or S. tianshanica ; see comments under respective species and under Sicista. See also comment in Corbet (1978c: 149, 1984:25).Published as part of Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 487-499 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 496-497, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307