Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Allocricetulus curtatus Allen, 1925 . Am. Mus. Novit., 179:3 . TYPE LOCALITY: China , W Nei Mongol ( Inner Mongolia ), Iren Dabasu (= Ehrlien) . DISTRIBUTION: China ; "Steppes of Mongolia north of the Altai and eastwards to Inner Mongolia " ( Corbet, 1978c:92 ); also recorded from N Xinjiang Prov. in NW China ( Ma et al., 1987 ), Ningxia ( Qin, 1991 ), and Anhui ( Liu et al., 1985 ). COMMENTS: Ma et al. (1987) treated curtatus as a subspecies of A. eversmanni , but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Corbet and Hill (1991) continued to recognize it as a separate species.